Theology in America : Christian thought from the age of the Puritans to the Civil War /
E. Brooks Holifield.
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2003.
- 617 p. ; 25 cm.
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.