The old faith in a new nation : American Protestants and the Christian past /
Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Protestants, who relied on common sense and "the Bible alone." Old Faith in a New Nation challenges this portrayal by recovering evangelical engagement with the Christian past. Even when they a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Protestants, who relied on common sense and "the Bible alone." Old Faith in a New Nation challenges this portrayal by recovering evangelical engagement with the Christian past. Even when they appeared to be most scornful toward tradition, most optimistic and forward-looking, and most confident in their grasp of the Bible, evangelicals found themselves returning, time and again, to Christian history. This volume draws from hundreds of print sources - sermons, books, speeches, legal arguments, political petitions, and more - to show how ordinary educated Americans remembered and used Christian history. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197639184 0197639186 9780197639177 0197639178 |