Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves

by Jill Hicks-Keeton

Good Book interrogates how white evangelical Christians in the US make the Bible the ""Good Book."" An inanimate object with a contested table of contents ripe for multiple meanings and uses, the Bible cannot be a moral agent on its own. People must make it so, as indeed they have. As prevailing social norms change, evangelical Christians confront intellectual and interpretive challenges as they quest to make an ancient book newly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506485855
• ISBN13: 9781506485850
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"