Theology in America : Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holifield, E. Brooks
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2003]
Subjects:	Theology, Doctrinal > United States > History. Theology, Doctrinal. United States. History.

Table of Contents:

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.