{"product_id":"in-the-beginning-was-the-word-the-bible-in-american-public-life-1492-1783-9780190263980","title":"In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783","description":"In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal. But while Spanish and Catholic Christianity reached the New World in 1492, it was only with settlements in the seventeenth century that English-language Bibles and Protestant Christendom arrived. The Puritans brought with them intense devotion to Scripture, as well as their ideal of Christendom -- a civilization characterized by a thorough intermingling of the Bible with everything else. That ideal began this country's journey from the Puritan's City on a Hill to the Bible-quoting country the U.S. is today. \u003cem\u003eIn the Beginning Was the Word\u003c\/em\u003e shows how important the Bible remained, even as that Puritan ideal changed considerably through the early stages of American history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor Mark Noll shows how seventeenth-century Americans received conflicting models of scriptural authority from Europe: the Bible under Christendom (high Anglicanism), the Bible over Christendom (moderate Puritanism), and the Bible against Christendom (Anabaptists, enthusiasts, Quakers). In the eighteenth century, the colonists turned increasingly to the Bible against Christendom, a stance that fueled the Revolution against Anglican Britain and prepared the way for a new country founded on the separation of church and state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the foremost scholars of American Christianity, Mark Noll brings a wealth of research and wisdom to \u003cem\u003eIn the Beginning Was the Word, \u003c\/em\u003e providing a sweeping, engaging, and insightful survey of the relationship between the Bible and public issues from the beginning of European settlement. A seminal new work from a world-class scholar, this book offers a fresh account of the contested, sometimes ambiguous, but definite biblical roots of American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark A. Noll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190263980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2015 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark A. Noll \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eAmerica's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2002) and \u003cem\u003eProtestantism: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2011).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929197822067,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_34c1c759-fdae-42cd-b7ed-5e9c16ffdf41.jpg?v=1647610980","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-the-bible-in-american-public-life-1492-1783-9780190263980","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}