Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Part 1 From Hampton Court to New England
Chapter 1 The Scope of It 5
Chapter 2 The Road to 1611 12
Chapter 3 The Foundation is Laid 21
Chapter 4 The King James Version is Commissioned 32
Chapter 5 The Four Companies 41
Chapter 6 The Mayflower and the Covenant 53
Chapter 7 The Bible in the Civil Wars (1642-51) 68
Chapter 8 The New Map 81
Chapter 9 The Great Awakening 93
Part 2 The Impact on Culture
Chapter 10 The Royal Society (1660): Early Modern Science and the Bible 109
Chapter 11 Language 119
Chapter 12 The Bible Itself as Literature 130
Chapter 13 From Shakespeare - The Bible and Literature(1) 140
Chapter 14 American Literature and the Twentieth Century - The Bible and Literature (2) 164
Chapter 15 The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment 182
Chapter 16 The Matter of Richard Dawkins: The New Enlightenment 194
Chapter 17 Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wilberforce 210
Part 3 The Impact on Society
Chapter 18 Slavery and the Civil War in America (1) 229
Chapter 19 Slavery and the Civil War in America (2) 243
Chapter 20 The Bible and Education 259
Chapter 21 On a Mission Around the World 271
Chapter 22 The Bible and Sex 287
Chapter 23 The Bible and Women 310
Chapter 24 Christian Socialism and the Social Gospel 324
Chapter 25 The Bible and Democracy 335
Afterword 345
Acknowledgements 349
Select Bibliography 351
Index 355
