America's God : from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln /
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 Reformati...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : theology and history
- Theology in colonial America
- The long life and final collapse of the Puritan canopy
- 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
- The evangelical surge ...
- ... and constructing a new nation
- Ideological permutations
- 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
- 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.