When People Read the KJB, They Often Found God: They Also Found a Grand Narrative and a Foundation for Individualism

Mark Ray Schmidt

When People Read the KJB, They Often Found God: They Also Found a Grand Narrative and a Foundation for Individualism

Mark Ray Schmidt

Liberty University

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Abstract

For a period of four hundred years, English-speaking people learned about the Creator of the universe with the King James Version of the Bible. Illiterate farmers and nobility read the KJB in church. The highly educated and the poorly educated flipped through its pages to find deliverance from their sins and to find a personal walk with God. This Bible shaped the vocabulary of millions of people, but it also shaped the mental landscape of those people. It gave people a grand narrative or a meta-narrative. One function of that narrative was the development of Western individualism.

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State	Published - Oct 1 2011

Publication series

Name	The Conference of the Quatercentennial Anniversary of the King James Bible

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http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/kjv400/kjv_conf/KJV400/4

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