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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Oxford,New York
Oxford University Press
2002
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Yhteenveto: | 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 Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos |
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| Ulkoasu: | xiii, 622 p. 24 cm |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 569-602) and index |
| ISBN: | 0195182995 9780195182996 |