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What role has the Bible played in our national history?
The subject of the talk is the centrally important and deeply complex role of the Bible over the course of our national past—in key debates over slavery, the rights of women, and the conditions for a moral and just society—and why this ancient book still generates inspiration, frustration, and debate in the present day.
Peggy Bendroth is the director of the Congregational Library, up on Boston’s Beacon Hill. She is a historian of American religion, with a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, and the author of several books and many articles, including Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale 1993), Fundamentalists in the City: Conflict and Division in Boston’s Churches (Oxford 2005), and most recently, A School of the Church: Andover Newton at Two Hundred (Eerdmans 2008).
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