The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought
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The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought

Revelation and the Boundaries of Scripture

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The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought

Revelation and the Boundaries of Scripture

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In this book, Travis DeCook explores the theological and political innovations found in early modern accounts of the Bible's origins. In the charged climate produced by the Reformation and humanist historicism, writers grappled with the tension between the Bible's divine and human aspects, and they produced innovative narratives regarding the agencies and processes through which the Bible came into existence and was transmitted. DeCook investigates how these accounts of Scripture's production were taken up beyond the expected boundaries of biblical study, and were redeployed as the theological basis for wide-reaching arguments about the proper ordering of human life. DeCook provides a new, critical perspective on ideas regarding secularity, secularization, and modernity, challenging the dominant narratives regarding the Bible's role in these processes. He shows how these engagements with the Bible's origins prompt a rethinking of formulations of secularity and secularization in our own time.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108916400
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
History of Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Eternal Word, Historical Artifact - Biblical Transcendence and Immanence in the Wake of Humanism and Reformation
  9. 1 The Primordial Bible: William Tyndale's Social Vision and the Limits of Disenchantment
  10. 2 The Extrinsic Bible: Scriptural Revelation, Secularity, and Social Organization in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
  11. 3 Scripture Atomized: Sovereignty, Secularization, and the Metaphysics of the Bible in Hobbes's Leviathan
  12. 4 The Trial of Scripture: John Milton, Individual Freedom, and the Providential Immanence of the Bible's Textual History
  13. 5 The Religion of the State: Spinoza's Reimagining of the Bible's Origins and the Interiorization of Religion
  14. Conclusion: The Bible and Time
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index