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The invisible bestseller : searching for the Bible in America / Kenneth A. Briggs.
Author
Briggs, Kenneth A.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.
Description
xvi, 239 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
BS511.3 .B75 2016
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United States
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Religion
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United States
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Church history
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Bible
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History
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Bible
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Summary note
How can a book -- one that's found in courthouses, libraries, and millions of households across the land -- be everywhere and nowhere at the same time? In this book, veteran religion writer Kenneth Briggs asks how, even as the Bible remains the best-selling book of all time, fewer Americans than ever can correctly articulate what it says, much less how it might offer guidance for their lives. In a quest to make sense of the Bible's relative disappearance from public life, Briggs shares with readers his own two-year cross-country journey to a variety of places. Brigg's narrative incorporates pertinent interviews throughout with preachers, pollsters, scholars, and ordinary citizens from California to Texas to Florida to Massachusetts. As he probes and reflects on his varied findings, Briggs offers keen insight into why and how the Bible's place in American public life has shifted and shrunk -- and he suggests what role the Bible may play in the US in years to come. -- adapted from book flap.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235) and index.
Contents
America's Bible: loving it and leaving it
The story told by numbers
Does it make any difference?
Bibles galore
What if nobody read it?
The perfect is the enemy of the good
Moses in cyberspace
Who says what the Bible says?
Canon fodder
The eye of the Bible beholder
The fragility of teaching and learning scripture
Speaking personally
Song and dance
The story of the greatest story ever told awaits a new chapter.
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ISBN
9780802869135 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0802869130 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016008041
OCLC
946031853
Other standard number
40026498187
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