The Bible cause [electronic resource] : a history of the American Bible Society / John Fea.
Fea, John, author.
2016
BV2370.A7 F43 2016eb
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Title The Bible cause [electronic resource] : a history of the American Bible Society / John Fea.
Author Fea, John, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780190253097 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190253066
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 356 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190253066 doi
Call Number BV2370.A7 F43 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 267.130973
Summary Endorsed in its time by Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the American Bible Society (ABS) is a seminar institution for American Protestants. The groups were founded in 1816 with the goal of distributing free copies of the Bible in local languages throughout the world. Today, the ABS is a Christian ministry based in Philadelphia with a $300 million endowment and a mission to engage 100 million Americans with the Bible by 2025. This work examines this topic.
Note Endorsed in its time by Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the American Bible Society (ABS) is a seminar institution for American Protestants. The groups were founded in 1816 with the goal of distributing free copies of the Bible in local languages throughout the world. Today, the ABS is a Christian ministry based in Philadelphia with a $300 million endowment and a mission to engage 100 million Americans with the Bible by 2025. This work examines this topic.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 18, 2016).
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The Bible cause in America
The American Bible Society
Towards a Christian nation
A Bible for every American family
The business of benevolence
The Bible is the religion of Protestants
A Bible house divided
Rebuilding a Christian nation
The Bible cause in an age of immigration and expansion
The Levant
Mexico
China
African Americans in the wake of reconstruction
The war to end all wars
The Bible in times of plenty and want
Perfect love casteth out fear
Bibles, not bombs
Asia
The Bible and one world
The Bible cause at home in a postwar world
God's word for a New Age
Catholics
Good news
More good news
The Bible cause in the worst of times
God and country
Engaging the age of evangelicalism
Epilogue: The Bible cause in the twenty-first century.

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