In this book, Travis DeCook explores the theological and political innovations found in early modern accounts of the Bible's origins. In the charged climate pro

This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.

According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from

An innovative perspective on the relationship between philosophy and the Bible. The early modern philosophers’ interpretations of the Scriptures allow deciphe