Burning to Read

English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents

James Simpson

  • Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion Category

Introduction

1. Two Hundred Years of Biblical Violence

2. Good Bible News

3. Salvation, Reading, and Textual Hatred

4. The Literal Sense and Predestination

5. Bible Reading, Persecution, and Paranoia

6. History as Error

7. Thomas More and Textual Trust

8. The Tragic Scene of Early Modern Reading

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Burning to Read
  • A photo of the author

James Simpson is Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, and Harvard College Professor, Harvard University.