The Bible and “Christian America”

The Bible of the early American Republic

Seeking biblical liberty from vice and bondage

The Bible in Black Christian movements for liberation

Notable Americans drew inspiration from the Bible

Bible towns, Bible songs, Bible novels, and pocket Bibles

Readers respond to Christian History

Life was saturated with references to God and to scriptural metaphors.

 Biblical references in some famous American speeches

Both sides in the civil war appealed to the Bible

Americans have translated, interpreted, applied, and wrestled with the Bible from colonial times to the 21st century

Elias Boudinot and his friends worked not only to begin a new nation but also to start the American Bible Society

How American authors, believers and unbelievers alike, used the Bible in their work

The Bible has often starred at the box office

A quiz

Questions to help you think more deeply about this issue

Learn more about the history of the Bible in America with these resources selected by Christian History’s authors and editors.