Missouri Western State Universit

Bible Studies by Jeanie Crain (All studies are ongoing and will be revised from time to time; some links may have become inactive.)

Course Related (to accompany Reading the Bible as Literature: an Introduction Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010)

Supplementary Page for Reading the Bible as Literature: An Introduction ( published by Polity Press 2010)

Word Bible as Literature Text

Bible Study Outlines

Web Bible Studies in PDF

Mark(1.23 MB), Jonah (196KB),Revelation (1.41 MB), Ephesians 495 KB), Colossians (396 KB),

Bible as Literature (944 KB)

Selected Articles

Voices for the Supernatural and Revealed Word of God: John William Burgon and Geerhardus Vos

The Messiah Has Done It: A Structural Approach to Jesus' Identity in Mark

Wolter on Paul’s Theology: A Review

A Topical Study - God's Unlikely Chosen, by Jeanie Crain

Apologetics

https://jeaniecrain.wordpress.com

Christian Apologetics in the Aftermath of Postmodernism

Reponse to Inerrancy Word download Response to Inerrancy PDF

Book Reviews

What Would Jesus Read?: Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America

https://search.proquest.com/openview/089bfc85ce25a101b4ccc363c7213125/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=29587

Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism

https://search.proquest.com/openview/ef936adfada12480899f1fc7e4d243db/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=29587

Devil’s Music, Holy Rollers, and Hillbillies: How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll

James A. Cosby. McFarland, 2016

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jacc.12847

Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age JohnFletcher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jacc.12391

The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the PastMargaretBendroth. University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jacc.12732

"A Family Sketch" and Other Private Writings

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"We Shall Not Be Moved/No Nos Moverán": Biography of a Song of Struggle

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At Home in Nineteenthâ€Century America: A Documentary HistoryAmy G.Richter. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jacc.12539

Teaching Stephen King: Horror, the Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature

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Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

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The OTHER Catholics: Remaking America's Largest ReligionJulieByrne. Columbia University Press, 2016.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jacc.12862

The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenthâ€Century American ReligionClaudiaStokes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jacc.12399

James Jones: The Limits of Eternity

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Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern EvangelismTimothy E. W.Gloege. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jacc.12587

Mark Twain, American Humorist

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In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492â€1783Mark A.Noll. Oxford University Press, 2016.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jacc.12688

The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism

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Nature's Man: Thomas Jefferson's Philosophical AnthropologyMaurizioValsaniaCharlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jacc.12351

Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's DayKatharineLane Antolini. West Virginia University Press, 2014.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jacc.12693

Politics, Faith, and the Making of American Judaism