Theology in America: The Major Protestant Voices from Puritanism to Neo-Orthodoxy
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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Theology in America: The Major Protestant Voices from Puritanism to Neo-Orthodoxy
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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Theology in America: The Major Protestant Voices from Puritanism to Neo-Orthodoxy

Theology in America: The Major Protestant Voices from Puritanism to Neo-Orthodoxy

by Sydney E. Ahlstrom (Editor)
Theology in America: The Major Protestant Voices from Puritanism to Neo-Orthodoxy

Theology in America: The Major Protestant Voices from Puritanism to Neo-Orthodoxy

by Sydney E. Ahlstrom (Editor)

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780872206816
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date: 09/15/2003
Series: The American Heritage Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 632
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Sydney E. Ahlstrom was Professor of American Studies and History and Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University.

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