Burning to Read : : English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents / / James Simpson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Simpson, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Note on Citations --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Two Hundred Years of Biblical Violence --; Chapter Two. Good Bible News --; Chapter Three. Salvation, Reading, and Textual Hatred --; Chapter Four. The Literal Sense and Predestination --; Chapter Five. Bible Reading, Persecution, and Paranoia --; Chapter Six. History as Error --; Chapter Seven. Thomas More and Textual Trust --; Chapter Eight. The Tragic Scene of Early Modern Reading --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674043671; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674043671?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James Simpson.

Amid present-day conflagrations, this illuminating book reminds us of the sources, and profound consequences, of Christian fundamentalism in the sixteenth century. Simpson focuses on the cultural transformation in early modern England that allowed common people to read the Bible for the first time. The last wave of fundamentalist reading in the West provoked 150 years of violent upheaval; as we approach a second wave, this powerful book alerts us to our peril.