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...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Noll, Mark A.
Autres auteurs: Mark A. Noll
Langue:Undetermined
English
Publié: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2002
Sujets:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
Description
Résumé: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
Description matérielle:xiii, 622 p.
24 cm
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. 569-602) and index
ISBN:0195182995
9780195182996