The Bible cause: a history of the American Bible Society

Endorsed in its time by Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the American Bible Society (ABS) is a seminar institution for American Protestants. The groups were founded in 1816 with the goal of distributing free copies of the Bible in local languages throughout the world. Today, the...

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Main Author: Fea, John 1966- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, New York Oxford University Press 2016
In:Year: 2016
Reviews:[Rezension von: Fea, John, The Bible Cause] (2018) (Gloege, Timothy E. W.)
Further subjects:B American Bible Society History American Bible Society History

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505 8 0 |t The Bible cause in America 
505 8 0 |t The American Bible Society 
505 8 0 |t Towards a Christian nation 
505 8 0 |t A Bible for every American family 
505 8 0 |t The business of benevolence 
505 8 0 |t The Bible is the religion of Protestants 
505 8 0 |t A Bible house divided 
505 8 0 |t Rebuilding a Christian nation 
505 8 0 |t The Bible cause in an age of immigration and expansion 
505 8 0 |t The Levant 
505 8 0 |t Mexico 
505 8 0 |t China 
505 8 0 |t African Americans in the wake of reconstruction 
505 8 0 |t The war to end all wars 
505 8 0 |t The Bible in times of plenty and want 
505 8 0 |t Perfect love casteth out fear 
505 8 0 |t Bibles, not bombs 
505 8 0 |t Asia 
505 8 0 |t The Bible and one world 
505 8 0 |t The Bible cause at home in a postwar world 
505 8 0 |t God's word for a New Age 
505 8 0 |t Catholics 
505 8 0 |t Good news 
505 8 0 |t More good news 
505 8 0 |t The Bible cause in the worst of times 
505 8 0 |t God and country 
505 8 0 |t Engaging the age of evangelicalism 
505 8 0 |t Epilogue: The Bible cause in the twenty-first century 
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