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By John Fea

ISBN-10: 0190253061

ISBN-13: 9780190253066

counseled in its time through Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the yankee Bible Society (ABS) is a seminal establishment for American Protestants. the gang used to be based in 1816 with the target of dispensing unfastened copies of the Bible in neighborhood languages in the course of the international. this day, the ABS is a Christian ministry established in Philadelphia with a $300 million endowment and a undertaking to interact a hundred million americans with the Bible through 2025. In The Bible Cause, famous historian of yank faith John Fea demonstrates how the ABS's basic project - to put the Bible within the palms of as many folks as attainable - has brought on the background of the association to intersect at approximately each aspect with the background of the United States.

For the final 200 years, the ABS has gradually elevated its impression either at domestic and overseas, operating with all Christian denominations within the US and the world over, aligning itself every time attainable with the gatekeepers of yank non secular tradition. through the years ABS Bibles may be present in inn rooms, bookstores, and airports; on steam boats, university and collage campuses; the web; or even at the back of the Iron Curtain. Its brokers, Bibles in hand, might be discovered at the entrance strains of each American army clash from the Mexican-American warfare to the Iraq warfare. besides the fact that and anyplace the U.S. built, the ABS was once there.

Throughout the final centuries ABS hasn't ever wavered in its challenge, and its dedication to be the dad or mum of a Christian civilization has been confirmed repeatedly over.

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