Academic

America's God : From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

---

Outline: In this book, the author has provided a masterly account of this transition and what it signified for the meaning of Christian theology itself. In the decades preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, American theologians mastered the conceptual languages of republican political thought and commonsense moral reasoning. Because religious thinkers learned to speak these languages so well, Christian theology came to play an extraordinarily important role in American public life. Theology contributed profoundly to the new nation's self-definition and in turn, American ideologies exerted a profound impact on religion. Public thought and religious thought moved together, with a stress on individual freedom, a new confidence in intuitive reasoning capacity, and attention to the market realities of the opening American economy. By setting the era's leading religious figures in their broader political, intellectual, and social contexts, the author is able to offer fresh interpretations of the era's most significant clerical theologians like Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel W. Taylor, William Ellery Channing, and Charles Hodge, as well as important lay religious thinkers like Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catherine Beecher, and Abraham Lincoln. The author's integrated narrative explains how religious revival in the 1740s, colonial war with France, the struggle for national independence, the tremendous growth of evangelical denominations in the early republic, and rising conflict between North and South all affected the outlook of such intellectual readers. While the nation's religious thinkers contributed powerfully to the construction of national culture by asserting a commonsense republicanism informed by Christian faith, this influence also had unintended consequences. In particular, the theologians' deep sense of religious purpose set the stage for the Civil War, as Christians both North and South avowed with great assurance that the Bible could be interpreted only to support their own side in the conflict. The triumph of Christian reasoning in early America was thus also its tragedy. The author has provided a definitive history of Christian theology from the time of Edwards through the presidency of Lincoln. It is not only a story of flexible and creative theological energy that helped forge a national ideology, but it is also a story of how that ideology worked its influence on American theology, as it continues to do even today.

---

Ketersediaan

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

-

No. Panggil

230'.0973 N72a

Penerbit

New York, USA : Oxford University Press., 2002

Deskripsi Fisik

622

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-19-515111-9

Klasifikasi

230'.0973

Tipe Isi

-

Tipe Media

-

Tipe Pembawa

-

Edisi

-

Subjek

Theology, Doctrinal -- United States -- History --
Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 18th
United States -- Church history -- 18th century
Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 19th
United States -- Church history -- 19th century

Info Detail Spesifik

-

Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

-

Versi lain/terkait

Lampiran Berkas

Komentar

---

Anda harus masuk sebelum memberikan komentar