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By John Fea

counseled in its time through Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the yank Bible Society (ABS) is a seminal establishment for American Protestants. the crowd used to be based in 1816 with the objective of dispensing loose copies of the Bible in neighborhood languages during the international. this day, the ABS is a Christian ministry established in Philadelphia with a $300 million endowment and a challenge to have interaction a hundred million americans with the Bible by way of 2025. In The Bible Cause, famous historian of yankee faith John Fea demonstrates how the ABS's fundamental venture - to put the Bible within the fingers of as many folks as attainable - has triggered the heritage of the association to intersect at approximately each element with the heritage of the United States.

For the final 2 hundred years, the ABS has gradually elevated its impact either at domestic and out of the country, operating with all Christian denominations within the US and the world over, aligning itself at any time when attainable with the gatekeepers of yankee spiritual tradition. through the years ABS Bibles might be present in resort rooms, bookstores, and airports; on steam boats, collage and college campuses; the web; or even in the back of the Iron Curtain. Its brokers, Bibles in hand, will be chanced on at the entrance traces of each American army clash from the Mexican-American conflict to the Iraq struggle. despite the fact that and anywhere the us constructed, the ABS was once there.

Throughout the final centuries ABS hasn't ever wavered in its project, and its dedication to be the mum or dad of a Christian civilization has been confirmed repeatedly over.

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