The Bible and American culture: a sourcebook

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INTRODUCTION The Place of the Bible in the Paradox of America Biblical Archetypes and the Idea of 'America' How the Bible is Interpreted What is the Bible? Criteria for Selection Overview of the Chapters CHAPTER ONE: SPREADING THE WORD Missionizing Production and Distribution Translation The Book among books? John Eliot's Brief Narrative Charter of College of William and Mary Jonathan Edwards, 'A Divine and Supernatural Light' Continental Congress Authorizes Bible Printing The Jefferson Bible The American Bible Society Liberal Responses to Calvinism The Student Volunteer Movement Isaac Leeser and the Translation of Hebrew Scripture Francis Kenrick's Translation of the Pentateuch The Jewish Publication Society Dei Verbum The New American Bible The Gullah Bible The Green Bible Biblezines CHAPTER TWO: THE BIBLE AND THE REPUBLIC Settlement and God's Providence The First Charter of Virginia John Winthrop, 'A Model of Christian Charity' Fundamental Orders of Connecticut Dissent Among the Dissenters: The Bible and the Challenges of Colonial Governance The Examination of Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials Cotton Mather, from Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions Samuel Parris, 'Christ Knows How Many Devils There Are' John Hale, 'A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft' Quaker Pennsylvania and 'The Keithian Schism' Founding the Republic Prayer Before the First Continental Congress The Prayer of Rev. Duche Before the Continental Congress The Call to War, the Challenge of Peace Patrick Henry's Call for Revolution Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address Franklin D. Roosevelt as the Nation's Pastor Congress Declares the Bible 'the Word of God' Public Display of Religion Abington v. Schempp The Ten Commandments in the Alabama Courthouse Legal Responses Sporting Events and Religious Expression Verses in Eye Black CHAPTER THREE: THE BIBLE AND AMERICA'S GREAT DEBATES Slavery and Abolitionism: Pro-Slavery Arguments The Sin of Ham Slavery and the New Testament Slave Owners' Publications A Slave Catechism After Emancipation Slavery and Abolitionism: Anti-Slavery Arguments The Barnes Hypothesis Theodore Dwight Weld The Spirit of the Scriptures Biblical Typology Experiences of African Americans Resistance and Revolt in Charleston Frederick Douglass Women's Public Role and the Vote Sarah Grimke Sojourner Truth Preaching the Bible and Women's Equality Anna Julia Cooper Women and Social Reform The Woman's Bible Anti-Suffrage Arguments and Scripture Horace Bushnell James Cardinal Gibbons Debating the Bible's Authority: The Higher Criticism Controversy William Newton Clarke Inspiration: The 'Princeton Doctrine' The Briggs Case Debating the Bible's Authority: The Modernist/Fundamentalist Showdown The Fundamentals Curtis Lee Laws Harry Emerson Fosdick Debating the Bible's Authority: Evolution and Creationism T. DeWitt Talmage Henry Ward Beecher John Zahm William Jennings Bryan The Scopes Trial Reforming Society The Social Gospel The City as Menace Labor Unions Temperance The Women's Christian Temperance Union The Struggle for Civil Rights Anticipating the Movement Support for Segregation Martin Luther King, Jr. Fannie Lou Hamer Black Liberation Theology Inclusion of Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transexual Persons Paul's Statements in Romans 1 Another Interpretation of Romans 1 CHAPTER FOUR: READING IN THE MARGINS Identity and Textual Interpretation Jarena Lee The Bible as Patriarchal African American Women's Experience The Text Interprets Itself The Prophetic Corrective A 'Hermeneutics of Suspicion' A Gay Theology of Liberation The Bible as Intimate Friend Experience and the Authority of Spirit The Holiness Movement The Azusa Street Revival Letter from Bro. Parham Speaking in Tongues Catholic Charismatic Renewal Imagining Babylon and Thy Kingdom Come The Shakers 'I, Nephi,...': The Book of Mormon William Miller Ellen G. White on 'The Book of Books' Charles Taze Russell, 'Earth's Night of Sin to Terminate in a Morning of Joy' Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science Elijah Muhammad, 'What is Islam? What is a Muslim?' Jim Jones, 'The Letter Killeth' Message from the Apostle David Koresh and the Seven Seals CHAPTER FIVE: THE BIBLE AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION Art Edward Hicks, Peacable Kingdom Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt Edmonia Lewis Bessie Harvey Tobi Kahn Poetry Phillis Wheatley Emily Dickinson Robert Lowell Samuel Menashe Musical Lyric 'There is a Balm in Gilead' 'My Mother's Bible' 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' 'Hallelujah' Lauryn Hill, 'Forgive Them Father' The Novel Herman Melville, selection from Moby Dick James Baldwin, selection from Go Tell It on the Mountain