America's God : from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln / Mark A. Noll.

Often, religious thought in early America is simply equated with the severe Puritanism of Cotton Mather, or it is assumed to be some other product of European church life imported to North America. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, theology in the United States had shifted dramatically a...

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Main Author: Noll, Mark A., 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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505 0 |a Introduction, theology and history; Theology in colonial America; The long life and final collapse of the Puritan canopy -- Synthesis: Republicanism and religion, the American exception; Christian republicanism; Theistic common sense; Colonial theologies in the era of the Revolution; Innovative (but not "American") theologies in the era of the Revolution -- Evangelization: The evangelical surge; And constructing a new nation; Ideological permutations -- Americanization: Assumptions and assertions of American theology; The Americanization of Calvinism, contexts and questions; The Americanization of Calvinism, the congregational era, 1793-1827; The Americanization of Calvinism, explosion, 1827-1860; The Americanization of Methodism, the age of Asbury; The Americanization of Methodism,: after Asbury -- Crisis: The "Bible alone" and a reformed, literal hermeneutic; The Bible and slavery; Failed alternatives; Climax and exhaustion in the Civil War; Conclusion, contexts and dogma -- Appendix: Historiography of Republicanism and religion -- Glossary. 
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