ISBN:
9780567655516
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 309 Seiten)
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Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Tofighi, Fatima Harnessing Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse since 1968, James G. Crossley, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016 (ISBN 978-0-567-66959-9), xviii + 348 pp., pb £18.99 2018
Series Statement:
Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the bible 2
Series Statement:
Library of New Testament studies 506
Series Statement:
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Series Statement:
Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible
Series Statement:
Library of New Testament studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Crossley, James G., 1973 - Harnessing chaos
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible
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1900 - 1999
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Christianity and politics History
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20th century
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Great Britain
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Christianity and politics Great Britain
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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Bibel
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Rezeption
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England
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Politische Sprache
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Geschichte 1968-2014
Abstract:
Harnessing Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse Since 1968 (2014) looked at the shifts in political understandings of the Bible in the aftermath of the social and economic changes of the 1960s. The book examined the decline of the Radical bible (i.e. the Bible roughly equated with socialism) in parliamentary politics and the victory of (a modified form of) Thatcher's re-reading of the Liberal Bible tradition, which equated the Bible with rule of law, democracy and tolerance. This showed how Thatcher's Bible was developed by politicians and the significance of Tony Blair's socially liberal qualifications, as well as the Radical Bible's survival outside Parliament and against the backdrop of emerging Thatcherism. The new, revised edition of Harnessing Chaos includes an additional chapter/postscript on some of the remarkable and unexpected uses of the Bible that happened since 2014. These include David Cameron giving a number of key speeches which intensified Thatcher's Bible, particularly in his justification of his most controversial policy decisions surrounding foodbanks, austerity and ISIS, Ed Miliband engaging with Russell Brand's Radical Bible, and the unpredicted emergence of Jeremy Corbyn, which has seen him and his close allies explicitly use the Radical Bible, in direct disagreement with Thatcher, in his first major speeches. These developments have been, in varying degrees, unpredictable but also vital to understanding the fate of the Bible in contemporary English politics.
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