Burning to Read

English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents

James Simpson

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$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674046122

Publication Date: 05/01/2010

Short

368 pages

3 halftones

Belknap Press

World

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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

Awards & Accolades

Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion Category

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