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.

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with

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