The English Bible in the early modern world / / edited by Robert Armstrong, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin.

• Superior document: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history
• TeilnehmendeR: Armstrong, Robert; Ó hAnnracháin, Tadhg,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (227 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; List of Illustrations --; Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Protestant England and the English Bible /; ‘So sholde lewde men lerne by ymages’: Religious Imagery and Bible Learning /; The Laity and the Bible in Early Modern England /; Nuts, Kernels, Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants: Preachers and Their Handling of Biblical Texts /; Early Modern Catholic Perspectives on the Biblical Text: The Bellarmine and Whitaker Debate /; The Catholic Contribution to the King James Bible /; Bible Reading, Puritan Devotion, and the Transformation of Politics in the English Revolution /; ‘Not the Word of God’: Varieties of Antiscripturism during the English Revolution /; ‘Syllables governe the world’: Biblical Criticism, Erudition, Heterodoxy and Thomas Hobbes /; Back Matter --; Index.
• ISBN: 9004347976
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Robert Armstrong, Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin.

The English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700. Individual chapters discuss the responses of both clergy and laity to the sacred text, with particular emphasis on the range of settings in which the Bible was encountered and the variety of responses prompted by engagement with the Scriptures. Particular attention is given to debates around the text and interpretation of the Bible, to an emerging Protestant understanding of Scripture and to challenges it faced over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.