Theology in America: The Major Protestant Voices from Puritanism to Neo-orthodoxySydney E. Ahlstrom Covering nearly 300 years of American religious writing, this anthology compiles selections from thirteen notable thinkers--including Thomas Hooker, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Hodge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Josiah Royce, William James and H. Richard Niebuhr--to reveal the vital and creative history of Protestant theology in America. In his substantial Introduction, Sydney Ahlstrom relates the history of American theology in broad and accessible terms, tackling his subject with characteristic clarity, passion, and intellectual rectitude. |
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... tradition , and by the living faith of the people . Yet even in this respect there are complications , for scholars correct the biblical text , scriptural interpretations alter as one climate of opinion yields to another , and changing ...
... tradition , and by the living faith of the people . Yet even in this respect there are complications , for scholars correct the biblical text , scriptural interpretations alter as one climate of opinion yields to another , and changing ...
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... tradition as an organic whole . In The Modern Movement in American Theology ( New York : Fleming H. Revell Company , 1939 ) Foster describes the disintegration of that tradition . lor's theology was the Common - Sense Realism that was ...
... tradition as an organic whole . In The Modern Movement in American Theology ( New York : Fleming H. Revell Company , 1939 ) Foster describes the disintegration of that tradition . lor's theology was the Common - Sense Realism that was ...
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... tradition and even radical in their reform programs , Emersonian Transcendentalism being per- haps the most famous American instance . Others were emphatic in their defense of ecclesiastical traditions and conservative in their plans ...
... tradition and even radical in their reform programs , Emersonian Transcendentalism being per- haps the most famous American instance . Others were emphatic in their defense of ecclesiastical traditions and conservative in their plans ...
Contents
Introduction | 23 |
Selected Bibliography | 93 |
THOMAS HOOKER 15861647 | 111 |
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