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What do evangelicals believe when they 'believe in the Bible?' Despite hundreds of English versions that differ in their texts, evangelicals continue to believe that there is a stable text-'the Bible'-which is the authoritative word of God and an essential guide to their everyday lives. To understand this phenomenon of evangelical Biblicism, anthropologist and biblical scholar Brian Malley looks not to the words of the Bible but to the Bible-believing communities. For as Malley demonstrates, it is less the meaning of the words of the Bible itself than how 'the Bible' provides a proper ground for beliefs that matters to evangelicals. Drawing on recent cognitive and social theory and extensive fieldwork in an evangelical church, Malley's book is an invaluable guide for seminarians, social scientists of religion, or for anyone who wants to understand just how the Bible works for American evangelicals.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: How the Bible Works
• Subtitle: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism
• Author: Brian Malley
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9780759106642
• ISBN: 0759106649
• ID: 04910452
• Publisher: AltaMira Press,U.S.
• Weight: 431 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 165 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. May 2004

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