Perpetual scriptures in nineteenth-century America : literary, religious, and political quests for textual authority / Jeff Smith.
Smith, Jeff, 1958 January 25- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2023
PS217.R46 S445 2023
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Title Perpetual scriptures in nineteenth-century America : literary, religious, and political quests for textual authority / Jeff Smith.
Author Smith, Jeff, 1958 January 25- author.
ISBN 9781501398988
1501398989
9781501398964
1501398962
9781501398971
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9781501398957
9781501398995
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Call Number PS217.R46 S445 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/003
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : a nation founded on writing
The "world's oldest book" and the crisis of scriptural authority
Revivals, reaction, and the ultra-Protestants
Scriptures as sepulchres : Unitarians and Transcendentalists
Spirit and kingdom : language, social action, and the "true reviving"
American parascriptures : the making of a political canon
Sacred ephemera : literature, news, and Uncle Tom's cabin
Walt Whitman's "New Bible" and the spiritual vitalizing of facts
Slavery, liberty, and the three great charters
Lincoln's miniature Bible : salvation history in the Gettysburg address
Conclusion : the new American Testaments.

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