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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Contents
Introduction 383 | 23 |
Selected Bibliography | 93 |
THOMAS HOOKER 15861647 | 111 |
JONATHAN EDWARDS 17031758 | 149 |
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING 17801842 | 193 |
NATHANIEL WILLIAM TAYLOR 17861858 | 211 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 18031882 | 293 |
HORACE BUSHNELL 18021876 | 317 |
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