James Fenimore Cooper and the Bible

James Fenimore Cooper and the Bible

Webb Garrison in Strange Facts About the Bible, notes the influence the Bible on one important American author: “James Fenimore Cooper, author of the famous Leatherstocking series that constituted the first cycle of successful novels about the American frontier, had...
An English Historian and the Bible

An English Historian and the Bible

George M. Trevelyan notes in his History of England: “But though Shakespeare may be in the retrospect the greatest glory of his age, he was not in his own day its greatest influence. By the end of Elizabeth’s reign, the book of books for Englishmen was already the...
President Lincoln and the Bible

President Lincoln and the Bible

The devout Quaker, professor of philosophy and insightful thinker, the late Dr. David Elton Trueblood, wrote a book entitled: Abraham Lincoln: Theologian of American Anguish in which he reflected upon the role of religion in Lincoln’s life. (Chuck Colson, after...
Cambridge University and the Bible

Cambridge University and the Bible

Cambridge University, England, published a three-volume work of solid scholarship entitled, The Cambridge History of the Bible. It is a gold-mine of information on that important subject. In the final and concluding volume of this work is a great tribute to the Bible...
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