Travis Decook

The Origins of the Bible and Early Modern Political Thought

Revelation and the Boundaries of Scripture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the cultural functions played in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by accounts of the Bible's origins. It investigates how these accounts were taken up beyond the expected boundaries of biblical study, and deployed as the theological basis for arguments about the proper ordering of human life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830812
• ISBN-10: 1108830811
• Artikelnr.: 59992419

Autorenporträt

Travis DeCook is the co-editor of Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book (2011), and of Taking Exception to the Law (2015). He has published articles in journals such as Literature and Theology, Religion and Literature, and Studies in Philology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Eternal Word, Historical Artifact - Biblical Transcendence
and Immanence in the Wake of Humanism and Reformation; 1. The Primordial
Bible: William Tyndale's Social Vision and the Limits of Disenchantment; 2.
The extrinsic Bible: scriptural revelation, secularity, and social
organization in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis; 3. Scripture atomized:
sovereignty, secularization, and the metaphysics of the Bible in Hobbe's
Leviathan; 4. The trial of Scripture: John Milton, individual freedom, and
the providential immanence of the Bible's textual history; 5. The religion
of the state: Spinoza's reimagining of the Bibles origins and the
interiorization of religion; Conclusion: the Bible and time.