In the Beginning Was the Word Quotes

“The tight link that Protestants perceive between Scripture and salvation explains the great energy they have poured into studying, distributing, and translating the Scriptures, as well as producing the never-ending deluge of printed material explaining, mediating, parsing, debating, exploring, and riffing on the Bible.”
― Mark A. Noll, In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783