America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham LincolnOxford University Press, 2002 M10 3 - 640 páginas Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos. In the 125 years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, theology played an extraordinarily important role in American public and private life. Its evolution had a profound impact on America's self-definition. The changes taking place in American theology during this period were marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. Vividly set in the social and political events of the age, America's God is replete with the figures who made up the early American intellectual landscape, from theologians such as Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel W. Taylor, William Ellery Channing, and Charles Hodge and religiously inspired writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Stowe to dominant political leaders of the day like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. The contributions of these thinkers combined with the religious revival of the 1740s, colonial warfare with France, the consuming struggle for independence, and the rise of evangelical Protestantism to form a common intellectual coinage based on a rising republicanism and commonsense principles. As this Christian republicanism affirmed itself, it imbued in dedicated Christians a conviction that the Bible supported their beliefs over those of all others. Tragically, this sense of religious purpose set the stage for the Civil War, as the conviction of Christians both North and South that God was on their side served to deepen a schism that would soon rend the young nation asunder. Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology the legacies of which remain with us to this day. |
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... Theology and History 3 2. Theology in Colonial America 19 3. The Long Life and Final Collapse of the Puritan Canopy 31 II Synthesis 4. Republicanism and Religion : The American Exception 53 5. Christian Republicanism 73 6. Theistic ...
... Theology and History 3 2. Theology in Colonial America 19 3. The Long Life and Final Collapse of the Puritan Canopy 31 II Synthesis 4. Republicanism and Religion : The American Exception 53 5. Christian Republicanism 73 6. Theistic ...
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... American Theology 227 13. The Americanization of Calvinism : Contexts and Questions 253 14. The Americanization of Calvinism : The Congregational Era , 1793-1827 269 15. The Americanization of Calvinism : Explosion , 1827-1860 293 16 ...
... American Theology 227 13. The Americanization of Calvinism : Contexts and Questions 253 14. The Americanization of Calvinism : The Congregational Era , 1793-1827 269 15. The Americanization of Calvinism : Explosion , 1827-1860 293 16 ...
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... theological de- velopment and early American history , the book often asks how religion influ- enced the early United States . Yet Christian theology , not the United States , is the primary concern . The book's main narrative describes ...
... theological de- velopment and early American history , the book often asks how religion influ- enced the early United States . Yet Christian theology , not the United States , is the primary concern . The book's main narrative describes ...
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... American theology during this period . That hodge - podge also included Methodists , the most numerous religious movement in America from the Revo- lution to the Civil War , but a tradition whose historiography until recently has been ...
... American theology during this period . That hodge - podge also included Methodists , the most numerous religious movement in America from the Revo- lution to the Civil War , but a tradition whose historiography until recently has been ...
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... America , theology in these regions was primarily Calvinistic or Reformed or at least overwhelmingly theocentric . Methodologically , it was confessional , biblical , and even scholastic . Internal contentions lay mostly between ...
... America , theology in these regions was primarily Calvinistic or Reformed or at least overwhelmingly theocentric . Methodologically , it was confessional , biblical , and even scholastic . Internal contentions lay mostly between ...
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Evangelization | 159 |
Americanization | 225 |
Crisis | 365 |
Historiography of Republicanism and Religion | 447 |
Notes | 453 |
Glossary | 563 |
Select Bibliography | 569 |
Index | 603 |
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Página 172 - Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision ; for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Página 203 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 171 - We then as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain ; (for he saith ; I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation...
Página 16 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
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Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity Nancy Pearcey Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |