The political Bible in early modern England

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Label

The political Bible in early modern England

Statement of responsibility

Kevin Killeen, University of York

Creator

• Killeen, Kevin

Subject

• Bible and politics -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Bible, Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible, Old Testament -- Hermeneutics
• England -- Church history -- 17th century
• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714
• Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
• Monarchy -- Religious aspects | History -- 17th century
• Politics in the Bible -- History -- 17th century
• Renaissance -- England
• Bible -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era's political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptural writings - treatise, sermon, commentary, annotation, poetry and political tract - to show how deeply embedded this political vocabulary remained, across the century, from top to bottom and across all religious positions. It shows how constitutional thought, in this most tumultuous era of civil war, regicide and republic, was forged on the Bible, and how writers ranging from King James, Joseph Hall or John Milton to Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes can be better understood in the context of such vigorous biblical discourse.--

Member of

• Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in early modern British history
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks