Rescuing the Bible / / Roland Boer
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| Autore: |
Boer Roland <1961->
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| Titolo: |
Rescuing the Bible / / Roland Boer
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2007] |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 220.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Christianity |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [156]-162) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Rescuing the Bible; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The New Secularism; Chapter 2: The Worldly Left: Towards a Politics of Alliance; Chapter 3: Bad Conscience: Battles Over the Bible; Chapter 4: (Ab)using the Text: Conflicts in Politics and Science; Chapter 5: Making All Things New: The Revolutionary Legacy of the Bible; Chapter 6: Rescuing the Bible; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index of Subjects; Index of Biblical References |
| Sommario/riassunto: | What is the future for the Bible, one of the most important books in the world? In this manifesto, Roland Boer explores the idea that the Bible is an unruly and uncontrollable text that has been colonized by church, synagogue, and state. Powerfully argues that the Bible needs to be rescued from its abuse by the religious and political right Considers the history of revolutionary readings of the Bible, from Gerrard Winstanley to the present Urges a role for the Bible in a new ""worldly left"": an alliance between the religious and secular left that can promote mo |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rescuing the Bible |
| ISBN: | 1-281-06969-8 |
| 9786611069698 | |
| 0-470-69261-8 | |
| 0-470-76581-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910829968903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Blackwell manifestos.