· In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos. In the years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, theology played an extraordinarily important role in American public and private life. Its evolution had a profound impact on America's self-definition. · This is an extraordinary book that explains how evangelical Protestantism evolved from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the Civil War. Noll argues that the evangelical Protestantism allied itself with a republican approach to politics and common sense philosophy to develop its theology by the time of the Civil War/5(41). Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology the legacies of which remain with us to this day/5(35).
America's God - From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln Mark Noll charts the rise of a singularly American Christian theology characterized by spiritual inwardness, confidence in individual reason, and attentiveness to economic realities. This is the story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national. In America's God, Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology, the legacies of which remain with us to this day. God and Race in American Politics: A Short History (Princeton University Press, ) The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, ) America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, ).
Mark A. Noll's history of Christian theology in America, from the time of Jonathan Edwards, to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, tells the story of a flexible and creative theological energy that, over time, forged a guiding national ideology that continues to exert its influence. Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology the legacies of which remain with us to this day. This is an extraordinary book that explains how evangelical Protestantism evolved from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the Civil War. Noll argues that the evangelical Protestantism allied itself with a republican approach to politics and common sense philosophy to develop its theology by the time of the Civil War.
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