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

Author: E Brooks Holifield
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, [2005?].
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: E Brooks Holifield
ISBN: 030010765X 9780300107654
OCLC Number: 57574508
Notes: Originally published: 2003.
Description: ix, 617 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: E. Brooks Holifield.

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