Scott Mandelbrote

Michael Ledger-Lomas

The claim that the Bible was 'the Christian's only rule of faith and practice' has been fundamental to Protestant dissent. Dissenters first braved persecution and then justified their adversarial status in British society with the claim that they alone remained true to the biblical model of Christ's Church. They produced much of the literature that guided millions of people in their everyday reading of Scripture, while the voluntary societies that distributed millions of Bibles to the British and across the world were heavily indebted to Dissent. Yet no single book has explored either what the Bible did for dissenters or what dissenters did to establish the hegemony of the Bible in British culture. The protracted conflicts over biblical interpretation that resulted from the bewildering proliferation of dissenting denominations have made it difficult to grasp their contribution as a whole. This volume evokes the great variety in the dissenting study and use of the Bible while insisting on the factors that gave it importance and underlying unity. Its ten essays range across the period from the later seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century and make reference to all the major dissenting denominations of the United Kingdom. The essays are woven together by a thematic introduction which places the Bible at the centre of dissenting ecclesiology, eschatology, public worship and 'family religion', while charting the political and theological divisions that made the cry of 'the Bible only' so divisive for dissenters in practice.

Dissent and the Bible in Britain, c.1650-1950

This book is the first volume to cover the study and use of the Bible by Protestant dissenters in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Its ten essays recover a missing dimension to the reception of the Bible in Britain. They also offer a new way of understanding the divided history of Protestantism, presenting dissenters as people drawn together by the belief that they were truer to the Bible than any other Christians, while remainingdivided by deep-seated differences in how they read it.

Dissent and the Bible in Britain, C.1650-1950

John Davis

Edition, with full notes and apparatus, of a text which sheds much light on university affairs at the time.

1601-1850

The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford

Joanna Weinberg

Jewish Books and their Readers asks what constituted a ‘Jewish’ book in early modern Europe: how it was presented, disseminated, and understood within Jewish and Christian environments, and what effect this had on views of Jews and their intellectual heritage.

Aspects of the Intellectual Life of Christians and Jews in Early Modern Europe

Jewish Books and their Readers

Jitse M. van der Meer

These volumes describe how the development of the different styles of interpretation found in reading scripture and nature have transformed ideas of both the written word and the created world.

Scott Mandelbrote

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