The Erosion of Biblical Certainty [electronic resource] : Battles over Authority and Interpretation in America /
Lee, Michael J.author.
According to conventional wisdom, by the late 1800s, the image of Bible as a supernatural and infallible text crumbled in the eyes of intellectuals under the assaults of secularizing forces. This book corrects the narrative by arguing that in America, the road to skepticism had already been paved by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders.
Description based upon print version of record.
""â€œBiblia Americanaâ€?""""The Bible and Natural Philosophy""; ""Prisca Theologia, the Bible, and Pagan Mythologies""; ""Chronology and the Problem of China""; ""History and Philology""; ""Mosaic Authorship""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 2: Defending the Bible and Unintended Consequences: Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Dickinson Battle the Deists""; ""Jonathan Dickinsonâ€?s Empirical and Rational Defense of the Bible""; ""Probability and Certainty""; ""The Reasonableness of Christianity""; ""History and the Bible""; ""The Familiar Letters""; ""Jonathan Edwards""
""The Historical Accuracy of the Bible""""The Spiritual Sense""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3: The Triumph of Rational Religion in America: Revealed and Natural Religion at Eighteenth-Century Harvard""; ""The Controversy between Revealed and Natural Religion""; ""The Lectures on Revealed Religion""; ""The Lectures on Natural Religion""; ""The Death of Deism and the Rise of Unitarianism""; ""Part I I: The Early Nineteenth Century: German Biblical Critics and the Betrayal of History""
""Chapter 4: Blindsided by Germany: Buckminster, Textual Criticism, and the End of the Textus Receptus in America in the Nineteenth Century""""The Development of Textual Criticism in Europe""; ""Reactions to Textual Criticism""; ""Early Encounters with Textual Criticism in Eighteenth-Century America""; ""Buckminster and European Textual Scholarship""; ""Buckminsterâ€?s Review of Thomsonâ€?s Septuagint""; ""An American Griesbach""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 5: The Historical Bible: The Unitarians Grapple with the Bibleâ€?s Past""; ""Historical Examination of the Bible in Europe""
""European Historical Criticism""""Buckminster, Historical Contextualization, and Paul""; ""Andrews Norton""; ""â€œA Science of Interpretationâ€?""; ""â€œThe Modern School of German Infidelityâ€?""; ""Proving the Authenticity of the Bible""; ""The Limits of History""; ""Conclusion""; ""Epilogue: The Orthodox Reconcile with the Past""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
According to conventional wisdom, by the late 1800s, the image of Bible as a supernatural and infallible text crumbled in the eyes of intellectuals under the assaults of secularizing forces. This book corrects the narrative by arguing that in America, the road to skepticism had already been paved by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders.
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