Erosion of Biblical Certainty

Michael J. Lee is Assistant Professor at Eastern University, USA.

• PART I. The Eighteenth Century: The Battle Against Skepticism and Rationalizing the Bible Prologue: The European Background: Radical Critics and Rational Defenders of the Bible 1. American Puritans, Rationalism, and Revelation: Cotton Mather Naturalizes the Supernatural 2. Defending the Bible and Unintended Consequences: Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Dickinson Battle the Deists 3. The Triumph of Rational Religion in America: Revealed and Natural Religion at Eighteenth-Century Harvard PART II. The Early Nineteenth Century: German Biblical Critics and the Betrayal of History 4. Blindsided by Germany: Buckminster, Textual Criticism, and the End of the Textus Receptus in America in the Nineteenth Century 5. The Historical Bible: The Unitarians Grapple with the Bible's Past Epilogue: The Orthodox Reconcile with the Past

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