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Holifield, E. Brooks.

Theology in America Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War / [electronic resource] : E. Brooks Holifield. - Yale University Press, c2003. - 1 online resource (ix, 617 p.)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

ISBN: 9780300129731 (electronic bk.) 0300129734 (electronic bk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Theology, Doctrinal--History.--United States
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--Systematic.
Systematische theologie.

Subjects--Index Terms: რელიგია-- თეოლოგია

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BT30.U6 / H65 2003eb

Dewey Class. No.: 230/.0973

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 2(73)