Theology in America :Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War /E. Brooks Holifield.

Book

Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Description

The New England Calvinists -- Rationalism resisted -- Nature, the supernatural, and virtue -- Jonathan Edwards -- Fragmentation in New England -- The deists -- Evidential Christianity -- Unitarian virtue -- Universal salvation -- Episcopal theology and tradition -- Methodist perfection -- The Baptists and Calvinist diversity -- Restoration -- Roots of black theology -- The immediacy of revelation -- Calvinism revised -- "True Calvinism" defended -- Lutherans : reason, revival, and confession -- Catholics : reason and the Church -- The transcendentalists : intuition -- Horace Bushnell : Christian comprehensiveness -- The Mercersburg theology : communal reason -- Orestes Brownson and Isaac Hecker : transcendental Catholicism -- The dilemma of slavery. ix, 617 p. ;25 cm.

Book Details

Author

Holifield, E. Brooks.

Place Published

City

New Haven, CT

Date Published

circa 2003

Publication Subjects

Theology, Doctrinal--United States--History.

Call No.

BT30 .U6 H65 2003

ISBN

0300095740 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003042289

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-595) and index.