Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War by E. Brooks Holifield.
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.