Pelikan, Jaroslav, 1923-2006.

Interpreting the Bible & the Constitution [electronic resource] / Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution Jaroslav Pelikan. - Yale University Press, c2004. - 1 online resource (xiii, 216 p.)

"A John W. Kluge Center book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-206) and indexes.

Normative scripture : Christian and American -- Cruxes of interpretation in the Bible and in the constitution -- The Sensus literalis and the quest for original intent -- Development of doctrine : patterns and criteria.

Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians. The site of a beautiful medieval monastery - once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europe - Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labour camp. Roy Robson recounts the history of Solovki from its first settlers through the present day, as the history of Russia plays out on this miniature stage. In the 1600s, the piety and prosperity of Solovki turned to religious rebellion, siege, and massacre. Peter the Great then used it as a prison. But Solovki's glory was renewed in the nineteenth century as it became a major pilgrimage site - only to descend again into horror when the islands became, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the "mother of the Gulag" system. From its first interpid visitors through the blood-soaked twentieth century, Solovki, like Russia itself, has been a site of both glorious achievement and profound misery.

0300102674 (alk. paper) 9780300102673 (alk. paper) 9780300130768 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) 0300130767 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) 1281730882 9781281730886

OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com


Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.
Bible--Critique, interprétation, etc.--Histoire.


Constitutional law--United States.
Electronic books.
Droit constitutionnel--États-Unis.
Bijbel.
Exegese.
Grondwetten.
Staatsrecht.
RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Exegesis & Hermeneutics.

რელიგია-- ბიბლია


Electronic books.

BS500 / .P45 2004eb

220.6/01

27-23(091)