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Saints in Exile
Saints in Exile studies, from an insider's perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches …
The Origins of American Religious Nationalism
Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality. The book shows how, in the early American republic, a contest …
The Gospel Working Up
This book offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which …
The Life of Prayer in a World of Science
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Christians carried on an intense debate concerning the doctrine of prayer. This ideological revolution affected not only the ways …
Princeton in the Nation's Service
This book argues against the conventional idea that Protestantism effectively ceased to play an important role in American higher education around the end of the 19th century. …
Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards
Nathaniel Taylor was arguably the most influential and the most frequently misrepresented American theologian of his generation. While he claimed to be an Edwardsian Calvinist, …
Taking Heaven by Storm
Following the Revolutionary War, American Methodism grew at an astonishing rate, rising from fewer than 1000 members in 1770 to over 250,000 by 1820. John H. Wigger seeks to …
Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England
This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut Calvinist minister noted chiefly for his role in …
Sacred Borders
One Unitarian preacher prefaces his opposition to the invasion of Iraq by insisting that meaningful religion is a process of "ongoing revelation." He pits this essential "liberal" …
Encounters with God
This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. …
A Republic of Righteousness
This book examines the debate over the proper connection in society between religion and public life, that took place in the fifty years following the American Revolution. Jonathan …
Keepers of the Covenant
Rohrer challenges the traditional interpretation of the decline of the Congregationalists. Drawing heavily on unpublished manuscripts, the author shows that, rather than failing to …