Predestination : the American career of a contentious doctrine /
Peter J. Thuesen.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- xiv, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-288) and index.
The predestinarian labyrinth: historical background -- The agony and the ecstasy: predestination in New England puritanism -- "Shall the hellish doctrine stand?" enlightenment doubts and evangelical division -- From Methodists to Mormons: attacking predestination in the young republic -- Domesticating a doctrine: Catholics and Lutherans -- Debating a doctrine: Presbyterians and Baptists.