America's God From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

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ISBN: 9780195182996

ISBN-10: 0195182995

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Edition: 2005

Authors: Mark A. Noll

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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…

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 9.02" wide x 6.10" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 2.2

Mark A. Noll is McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author or editor of 35 books, including the award-winning America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.



List of Tables



Introductory



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



Historiography of Republicanism and Religion


Notes


Glossary


Select Bibliography


Index