Early Americans claimed that they looked to "the Bible alone" for authority, but the Bible was never, ever alone. Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States is a wide-ranging exploration of the place of the Christian Bible in America in the decades after the Revolution. Attending to both theoretical concerns about the nature of scriptur
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Discerning, illuminating, and altogether excellent study of religious authority in early America.—Daniel Vaca, American Religion
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