Early Americans claimed that they looked to "the Bible alone" for authority, but the Bible was never, ever alone. Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States is a wide-ranging exploration of the place of the Christian Bible in America in the decades after the Revolution. Attending to both theoretical concerns about the nature of scriptur
Author Biography
Seth Perry is assistant professor of religion at Princeton University.
Reviews
"Intriguing study."---Ryan J. Butler, Journal of Ecclesiastical History