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Author Crossley, James G., author.

Title Harnessing chaos : the Bible in English political discourse since 1968 / James G. Crossley
Published London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Scriptural traces ; 2
Scriptural traces ; 2.
Contents pt. 1. Experiencing defeat -- pt. 2. Thatcherism and the harnessing of chaos -- pt. 3. Carriers of cultural change -- pt. 4. From Thatcher's legacy to Blair's legacy
Summary "Harnessing Chaos" is an explanation of changes in dominant politicalized assumptions about what the Bible really means in English culture since the 1960s. James G. Crossley looks at how the social upheavals of the 1960s, and the economic shift from the post-war dominance of Keynesianism to the post-1970s dominance of neoliberalism, brought about certain emphases and nuances in the ways in which the Bible is popularly understood, particularly in relation to dominant political ideas. This book examines the decline of politically radical biblical interpretation in parliamentary politics and the victory of (a modified form of) Margaret Thatcher's re-reading of the liberal Bible tradition, following the normalisation of (a modified form of) Thatcherism more generally
Analysis Arts
Theology & Religion
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English
Subject Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
Bible -- Quotations
Bible -- Quotations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86008102
Bible fast
Subject Bibles.
Theology, Doctrinal
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Quotations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0567655512
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