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Author Hanson, Paul D

Title Political history of the bible in america
Published Louisville : Westminster John Knox

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Contents Preface; Prologue; Story, Identity, and Making Sense of the Bible; PART 1 A Historical Retrospective on the Relation between the Bible and Politics in the United States ; Introduction; The Theocratic Model of the Puritans; The Challenge of the Prophetic-Dialectical Model; The Revolutionary Period and the Lure of the Apocalyptic Model; Church and State in the Founding Documents; The Church-State Partnership of the Antebellum Years; The Gilded Age; Twentieth-Century Challenges; The Twenty-First Century's Perilous Debut; PART 2 Politics in the Bible
Defining a Suitable Interpretive MethodCharismatic Rule; Monarchy; Prophetic Politics; The Politics of Amos; The Politics of Hosea; Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel; Isaiah 40-55; Haggai and Zechariah; The Jewish Commonwealth and a Politics of Accommodation; Isaiah 24-27, 56-66; Ezekiel 38-39; Zechariah 9-14; Malachi; Sapiential Politics in Proverbs, Sirach, Job, and Ecclesiastes; The Apocalyptic Politics of the Book of Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls; Roman Occupation and Jewish Political Responses; The Politics of the New Testament; The Politics of Jesus; The Politics of the Apostle Paul
The Church Accommodates Itself to a World Not About to EndThe Book of Revelation; The Politics of the Four Gospels and Acts of the Apostles; Epilogue; What Is the Bible's Message for Today?; Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources; Index of Subjects
Subject Bible and politics -- United States
Politics in the Bible.
Christianity and politics -- United States
BIBLES -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
Bible and politics
Christianity and politics
Politics in the Bible
SUBJECT United States -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139926
Subject United States
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1611646081
9781611646085