Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America

by David F. Holland

"Why," an exasperated Jonathan Edwards asked, "can't we be contented with. . . the canon of Scripture?" Edwards posed this query to the religious enthusiasts of his own generation, but he could have just as appropriately put it to people across the full expanse of early American history.

In the minds of her critics, Anne Hutchinson's heresies threatened to produce "a new Bible." Ethan Allen insisted that a revelation which spoke to every circumstance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019975361X
• ISBN13: 9780199753611
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"