Opening Scripture : Bible reading and interpretive authority in Puritan New England
What role did the Bible really play in Puritan New England? Many have treated it as a blunt instrument used to cudgel dissenters into submission, but Lisa M. Gordis reveals instead that Puritan readings of the Bible showed great complexity and literary sophistication.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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9780226304120, 0226304124
1034896662
Humane skill and the arte of prophecying
John Cotton : reading, preaching, and the rhetoric of inevitability
Thomas Shepard : God's word and God's words
Applying the Word home : Thomas Hooker's affective reading and preaching
Go home and consider : lay responses to the preached text
Mist and fog : Roger Williams and the problem of interpretation
All the strife amongst us : consensus, reading, and revelation in the Antinomian controversy