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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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"a brilliant exercise in historical theology... beautifully crafted theological portraits of the most important contributors to America's great tradition... it is hard to think that anyone will remember the old theology with more clarity, sophistication and authority than Brooks Holifield, who has produced a comprehensive survey of the most distinguished kind." David Hempton, Times Literary Supplement" Read more...
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