Introduction: Is that your bible?
A city on a hill: an American legacy of Puritan biblical interpretation
Submission and revolution: Romans 13 and American identity
"The Bible through slave-holding spectacles": the Bible in the Civil War
Your kingdom come: social gospel hermeneutics
A stick of dynamite: civil rights and scripture
Magic of the market: the hermeneutics of small government
The late great United States: biblical eschatology in the cold war
Prayer, politics, and personal faith: George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's use of scripture
"Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's": evangelicals and Donald Trump
Seek the peace and prosperity of the city: Jeremiah 29 and political theology
Conclusion: The promise and peril of biblical references in politics.