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

This volume is a comprehensive survey of early American Christian theology which encompasses scores of American theological traditions, schools of thought, and thinkers. Holifield examines mainstream Protestant and Catholic traditions as well as those of more marginal groups. He looks closely at the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holifield, E. Brooks (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.