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Christian thought in America: a brief history is a short, accessible overview of the history of Christian thought in America, from the Puritans and other colonials to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Moving chronologically, each chapter addresses a historical segment, focusing on key movem...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schell, Hannah
Other Authors: Ott, Daniel J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Christianity and culture > United States.
Christianity and politics > United States.
Evangelicalism > United States.
Christianisme et politique > États-Unis.
Évangélisme > États-Unis.
11.60 Christian doctrine: general.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christianity and culture
Christianity and politics
Evangelicalism
United States > Church history.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Church history
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Errand in the wilderness": colonists in the New World
  • Religious and political awakenings: the Revolution
  • Religious thought in the New Republic, something new, something old: revival and restoration
  • New paths in the Nineteenth Century
  • Times of turmoil: the Civil War
  • Spreading the Word: Victorian evangelicalism and the varieties of Protestantism
  • Progressivism and its discontents
  • The courage to be and the courage to act: Twentieth Century developments
  • Stretching the Christian story: into the Twenty-First Century.

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