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Alfred North Whitehead, Essays in Science and Philosophy (New York: Philosophical Library, 1948), p. 114.

An excellent summary of Jefferson’s theology is in Robert M. Healey, Jefferson on Religion and Public Education (New Haven, CT: Yale, 1962); on the Bible, see pp. 102–104: on clergy, pp. 105–107, 118–119. The best of many versions of his work on the Gospels is Dickinson W. Adams, ed., Jefferson’s Extracts from the Gospels: ‘The Philosphy of Jesus’ and ‘The Life and Morals of Jesus,’ in the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993).

Crane Brinton, “Many Mansions,” American Historical Review, XLIX (January 1964, p. 315).

David Barrett, who computes statistics on world religion, estimates that the number of “Pentecostals/Charismatics” in world Christianity grew from 74,366,000 in 1970 to 429,523,000 in 1993. They are part of “Practicing Christian” growth in the same period from 905,526,000 to 1,259,691,000. See International Bulletin of Missionary Research, January, 1993, p. 23.

George Gallup, Jr. and Jim Castelli, The People’s Religion: American Faith in the 90’s (New York: Macmillan, 1989) pp. 60–61.

For a fair-minded account of the Baptist struggles, see Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990), especially the references to “inerrancy.”

Langdon, Die neubabylonische Königsinschriften, p. 174, col. ix, 13–15, and A. Leo Oppenheim, ANET³, p: 307.

Langdon, Die neubabylonische Königsinschriften, p. 222, lines 11–12.

See Isaiah 11:6.

“Enki and Ninhursag: A Paradise Myth,” trans. by Kramer, in ANET³, pp. 37–41, lines 15–17.