King James VI of Scotland ascended to the throne of England as King James I amid high treachery, global warfare and religious turmoil on this day in history, March 24, 1603. His reign shaped the ...

King James I, inside. How we remember Fawkes, as both a person and a symbol, presents a case study for how the meaning of historical events can be bent to serve the religious, political ...

To pass judicial scrutiny, advocates of having religious symbols or texts in public spaces ... when Catholics resisted Protestant efforts to have the King James Bible taught in public schools ...

In 1604, King James, himself a religious scholar who had re-translated some of the psalms, sought to unite these factions — and his people — through one universally accepted text. The idea was ...

It is an amazing thing. LAWTON: The King James Bible emerged out of a tumultuous religious period in English history. For nearly a millennium, the Latin Vulgate Bible had been considered the only ...

"The result, beyond simply an authoritative text on which to continue building the national religion, would have far-reaching influence on the language itself." The King James Bible was ...

James was born ... the more radical religious ideas of the Scottish church, and the Catholics, who anticipated more lenient treatment. In 1605, a Catholic plot to blow up king and parliament ...

He serves as professor of religious studies at Penn State University. He is also an organizer of the upcoming April conference headlined The King James Bible and the World It Made that will be ...

Watch more about the history surrounding the publication of the King James Bible. Watch more of Kim Lawton's interviews about the background surrounding the King James Version of the Bible with ...