Every Leaf, Line, and Letter : : Evangelicals and the Bible from the 1730s to the Present.

• Author: Larsen, Timothy.
• Place / Publishing House: Westmont : : InterVarsity Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages)

Christians within evangelicalism have always had a high regard for the Bible. How has the eternal Word of God been received across various races, age groups, genders, nations, and eras? This collection of historical studies focuses on evangelicals' defining uses--and abuses--of Scripture, from Great Britain to the Global South, from the high pulpit to private devotions and public causes.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Introduction-Thomas S. Kidd -- Part One: The Eighteenth Century -- 1 British Exodus, American Empire: Evangelical Preachers and the Biblicisms of Revolution -- 2 Lectio Evangelica: Figural Interpretation and Early Evangelical Bible Reading-Bruce Hindmarsh -- 3 Faith, Free Will, and Biblical Reasoning in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards and John Erskine-Jonathan Yeager -- Part Two: The Nineteenth Century -- 4 "Young People Are Actually Becoming Accurate Bible Theologians": Children's Bible Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century America-K. Elise Leal -- 5 Missouri, Denmark Vesey, Biblical Proslavery, and a Crisis for Sola Scriptura-Mark A. Noll -- 6 Josephine Butler's Mystic Vision and Her Love for the Jesus of the Gospels-Mary Riso -- Part Three: The Twentieth Century -- 7 The Bible Crisis of British Evangelicalism in the 1920s-David Bebbington -- 8 Liberal Evangelicals and the Bible-Timothy Larsen -- 9 "The Only Way to Stop a Mob": Francis Grimké's Biblical Case for Lynching Resistance-Malcolm Foley -- 10 "As at the Beginning": Charismatic Renewal and the Reanimation of Scripture in Britain and New Zealand in the "Long" 1960s-John Maiden -- Part Four: Into the Twenty-First Century -- 11 The American Patriot's Bible: Evangelicals, the Bible, and American Nationalism-Catherine A. Brekus -- 12 The Evangelical Christian Mind in History and Global Context-Brian Stanley -- Acknowledgments-Thomas S. Kidd -- Contributors -- General Index -- Scripture Index -- Notes -- Praise for Every Leaf, Line, and Letter -- About the Author -- More Titles from InterVarsity Press -- Copyright.