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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Eternal Word, Historical Artifact - Biblical Transcendence and Immanence in the Wake of Humanism and Reformation -- The Early Modern Bible and Theories of Secularity -- The Transcendent Bible -- The Immanent Bible -- Political Theology -- Overview of the Chapters -- 1 The Primordial Bible: William Tyndale's Social Vision and the Limits of Disenchantment -- Scripture and History -- Disenchantment and Biblical Transcendence -- The Rhetoric of Biblical Autonomy -- The Primacy of Relationship -- Tyndale's Social Vision -- 2 The Extrinsic Bible: Scriptural Revelation, Secularity, and Social Organization in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis -- Bacon's Imagined Bible -- Revelation, Philosophy, and the Secular -- 3 Scripture Atomized: Sovereignty, Secularization, and the Metaphysics of the Bible in Hobbes's Leviathan -- The Bible's Textual History -- Materialism and the Reception of Scripture -- Revelation Fragmented -- Sovereignty and Secularization -- 4 The Trial of Scripture: John Milton, Individual Freedom, and the Providential Immanence of the Bible's Textual History -- An Earlier Analogue -- Textual Corruption and Providence -- Spirit and Scripture -- The Spirit-Led Individual -- The Mangled Body of Scripture -- 5 The Religion of the State: Spinoza's Reimagining of the Bible's Origins and the Interiorization of Religion -- Spinoza and the Secular -- Spinoza's Bible and Political Thought -- Spinoza's Reimagining of Revelation -- The Secularization Argument -- The State and Religion -- The Binary of Belief and Conduct -- The Mennonite Question -- Conclusion: The Bible and Time -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.

Explores the cultural functions played in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by accounts of the Bible's origins.

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