1.   It is also a cultural document of prime importance for understanding the sensibilities of the lay audience for whom the mystical writers in the vernacular were providing texts.

2.   He wrote the book to argue the importance of capital mobility to a lay audience.

3.   It is the personal, the metaphysical -- the mystical, even -- side, however, that makes these portraits so accessible to a lay audience.

4.   It is the personal, the metaphysical Q the mystical, even Q side, however, that makes these portraits so accessible to a lay audience.

5.   So I wrote a book about the Bible for the average intelligent lay audience, not for seminarians or Divinity School colleagues.

6.   The book might have lived a worthy but generally unacknowledged existence if it had not been authoritative and enthusiastic enough to appeal to a lay audience.

7.   The new book summarizes those decades of research for a lay audience.