TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holifield,E.Brooks
TI  - Theology in America: Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War 
SN  - 9780300129731
AV  - BT30.U6 H65 2003eb
U1  - 230/.0973 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New Haven, CT
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Theology, Doctrinal
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - fast
KW  - Systematische theologie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-595) and index; The New England Calvinists -- Rationalism resisted -- Nature, the supernatural, and virtue -- Jonathan Edwards -- Fragmentation in New England -- The deists -- Evidential Christianity -- Unitarian virtue -- Universal salvation -- Episcopal theology and tradition -- Methodist perfection -- The Baptists and Calvinist diversity -- Restoration -- Roots of black theology -- The immediacy of revelation -- Calvinism revised -- "True Calvinism" defended -- Lutherans : reason, revival, and confession -- Catholics : reason and the Church -- The transcendentalists : intuition -- Horace Bushnell : Christian comprehensiveness -- The Mercersburg theology : communal reason -- Orestes Brownson and Isaac Hecker : transcendental Catholicism -- The dilemma of slavery
N2  - This volume is a comprehensive survey of early American Christian theology which encompasses scores of American theological traditions, schools of thought, and thinkers. Holifield examines mainstream Protestant and Catholic traditions as well as those of more marginal groups. He looks closely at the intricacies of American theology from 1636 to 1865 and considers the social and institutional settings for religious thought during this period. The book explores a range of themes, including the strand of Christian thought that sought to demonstrate the reasonableness of Christianity, the place of American theology within the larger European setting, the social location of theology in early America, and the special importance of the Calvinist traditions in the development of American theology. Broad in scope and deep in its insights, this book acquaints us with the full chorus of voices that contributed to theological conversation in America's early years
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