LEADER 04347nam 22007331 450 001 9910279738303321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a9780567669599 010 $a0567669599 010 $a9780567666758 010 $a0567666751 010 $a9780567659347 010 $a0567659348 010 $a9780567655516 010 $a0567655512 024 7 $a10.5040/9780567659347 035 $a(CKB)2550000001325776 035 $a(EBL)1727301 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001305722 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11779092 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001305722 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11257936 035 $a(PQKB)11015847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1727301 035 $a(OCoLC)883377986 035 $a(UkLoBP)bpp09255176 035 $a(ScCtBLL)d5dbacb1-2834-4770-a1eb-211ed177726e 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31310 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9780567659347BC 035 $a(oapen)doab31310 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001325776 100 $a20140929d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHarnessing chaos $ethe Bible in English political discourse since 1968 /$fJames G. Crossley 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 225 0 $aScriptural traces : critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible ;$v2 225 1 $aLibrary of New Testament studies ;$v506 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780567655509 311 0 $a0567655504 311 0 $a9781306930093 311 0 $a130693009X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Experiencing defeat -- part 2. Thatcherism and the harnessing of chaos -- part 3. Carriers of cultural change -- part 4. From Thatcher's legacy to Blair's legacy. 330 $a"Harnessing Chaos is an explanation of changes in dominant politicalized assumptions about what the Bible 'really means' in English culture since the 1960s. This book looks at how the social upheavals of the 1960s, and the economic shift from the post-war dominance of Keynesianism to the post-1970s dominance of neoliberalism, brought about certain emphases and nuances in the ways in which the Bible is popularly understood, particularly in relation to dominant political ideas. This book examines the decline of politically radical biblical interpretation in parliamentary politics and the victory of (a modified form of) Margaret Thatcher's re-reading of the liberal Bible tradition, following the normalisation of (a modified form of) Thatcherism more generally. Part I looks at the potential options for politicized readings of the Bible at the end of the the1960s, focussing on the examples of Christopher Hill and Enoch Powell. Part II analyses the role of Thatcher's specific contribution to political interpretation of the Bible and assumptions about 'religion'. Part III highlights the importance of (often unintended) ideological changes towards forms of Thatcherite interpretation in popular culture and with particular reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian and the Manchester music scene between 1976 and 1994. Part IV concerns the modification of Thatcher's Bible, particularly with reference to the embrace of socially liberal values, by looking at the electoral decline of the Conservative Party through the work of Jeffrey Archer on Judas and the final victory of Thatcherism through Tony Blair's exegesis. Some consideration is then given to the Bible in an Age of Coalition and how politically radical biblical interpretations retain a presence outside parliamentary politics. Harnessing Chaos concludes with reflections on why politicians in English politicians bother using the Bible at all."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aLibrary of New Testament studies ;$v506. 606 $aBible and politics 606 $aChaos (Christian theology) 615 0$aBible and politics. 615 0$aChaos (Christian theology) 676 $a220.6 700 $aCrossley$b James G.$0960280 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910279738303321 996 $aHarnessing chaos$92189864 997 $aUNINA