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Publication
Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press.
Physical description
xiii, 622 p.; 24 cm
Notes
From the Introduction:
"This book is a contextual history of Christian theology. Its pages describe evolutionary changes in Christian doctrine that occurred from the 1730s to the 1860s, a period when theology played an extraordinarily important role in American thought, but the emphasis throughout is on the contexts--ecclesiastical, social, political, intellectual, and commercial--in which those changes took place. Because it features connections between theological development and early American history, the book often asks how religion influenced the early United States. Yet Christian theology, not the United States, is the primary concern.
CONTENTS
List of Tables.
I. Introductory.
1. Introduction: Theology and History.
2. Theology in Colonial America.
3. The Long Life and Final Collapse of the Puritan Canopy.
II. Synthesis.
4. Republicanism and Religion: The American Exception.
5. Christian Republicanism.
6. Theistic Common Sense.
7. Colonial Theologies
8. Innovative (but Not "American") Theologies in the Era of the Revolution.
III. Evangelization.
9. The Evangelical Surge.
10. . . . and Constructing a New Nation.
11. Ideological Permutations.
IV. Americanization.
12. Assumptions and Assertions of American Theology.
13. The Americanization of Calvinism: Contexts and Questions.
14. The Americanization of Calvinism: The Congregational Era, 1793-1827.
15. The Americanization of Calvinism: Explosion, 1827-1860.
16. The Americanization of Methodism: The Age of Asbury.
17. The Americanization of Methodism: After Asbury.
V. Crisis.
18. The "Bible Alone" and a Reformed, Literal Hermeneutic.
19. The Bible and Slavery.
20. Failed Alternatives.
21. Climax and Exhaustion in the Civil War.
22. Conclusion: Contexts and Dogma.
Appendix: Historiography of Republicanism and Religion.
Notes.
Glossary.
Select Bibliography. [pp. 569-602]
Index.
"This book is a contextual history of Christian theology. Its pages describe evolutionary changes in Christian doctrine that occurred from the 1730s to the 1860s, a period when theology played an extraordinarily important role in American thought, but the emphasis throughout is on the contexts--ecclesiastical, social, political, intellectual, and commercial--in which those changes took place. Because it features connections between theological development and early American history, the book often asks how religion influenced the early United States. Yet Christian theology, not the United States, is the primary concern.
CONTENTS
List of Tables.
I. Introductory.
1. Introduction: Theology and History.
2. Theology in Colonial America.
3. The Long Life and Final Collapse of the Puritan Canopy.
II. Synthesis.
4. Republicanism and Religion: The American Exception.
5. Christian Republicanism.
6. Theistic Common Sense.
7. Colonial Theologies
8. Innovative (but Not "American") Theologies in the Era of the Revolution.
III. Evangelization.
9. The Evangelical Surge.
10. . . . and Constructing a New Nation.
11. Ideological Permutations.
IV. Americanization.
12. Assumptions and Assertions of American Theology.
13. The Americanization of Calvinism: Contexts and Questions.
14. The Americanization of Calvinism: The Congregational Era, 1793-1827.
15. The Americanization of Calvinism: Explosion, 1827-1860.
16. The Americanization of Methodism: The Age of Asbury.
17. The Americanization of Methodism: After Asbury.
V. Crisis.
18. The "Bible Alone" and a Reformed, Literal Hermeneutic.
19. The Bible and Slavery.
20. Failed Alternatives.
21. Climax and Exhaustion in the Civil War.
22. Conclusion: Contexts and Dogma.
Appendix: Historiography of Republicanism and Religion.
Notes.
Glossary.
Select Bibliography. [pp. 569-602]
Index.