Rescuing the Bible /
What does the future hold for the Bible? In this provocative and powerfully-argued Manifesto, Roland Boer voices his fear that unless action is taken the Bible will become the sole preserve of the conservative political and religious groups who have appropriated this sacred text for their own ends....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2007.
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| Series: | Blackwell manifestos.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | What does the future hold for the Bible? In this provocative and powerfully-argued Manifesto, Roland Boer voices his fear that unless action is taken the Bible will become the sole preserve of the conservative political and religious groups who have appropriated this sacred text for their own ends. But it hasn't always been that way. Boer also traces the Bible's long history as a source of inspiration for radical and revolutionary movements and then issues a rallying call for contemporary radicals and revolutionaries to maintain and uphold that tradition. Only then, he argues, can the Bible be rescued from its most systematic abusers: the church, the synagogue and the state. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 177 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-162) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780470692615 0470692618 9780470765814 047076581X 1281069698 9781281069696 |