• RecordNumber
    4760
  • Author
    Holifield, E. Brooks.
  • Title

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

  • Author Statement
    E. Brooks Holifield.
  • Publication
    Yale University Press
  • Publication Year
    c2003
  • Collation
    ix, 617 p. ; 25 cm
  • Notes
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-595) and index. , 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
  • Subject

    Theology, Doctrinal

  • Main class
    230.
  • Sub class
    092273
  • Cutter no
    H732t