In the Beginning (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Alister E. McGrath
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History, literary history, and religion
- Time of Work: The sixteenth through twentieth centuries
- Setting: Europe and America
- Principal Characters: King James I, William Tyndale, Richard Bancroft, Robert Barker, Charles II
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Religion, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Christianity, Kings, queens, or royalty, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Sixteenth century, Puritans or Puritanism, Protestantism or Protestant churches, Heads of state
- Locales: Europe, England, American colonies
At the end of In the Beginning, Alister McGrath remarks upon the prominent role of the King James Bible in English culture. By the late nineteenth century it was known simply as the Authorized Version in England and was the translation of choice in other English-speaking nations too. So profoundly did it underlie Protestant doctrine and general education that most people were not even aware that it was a translation. It was simply the Bible. McGrath’s book recounts how and why the King James Bible achieved that status.
It is a large, complex, worthy undertaking,...
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