Religious life in early America is often equated with fire-and-brimstone Puritanism, yet by the nineteenth century, Americans had moved away from the severe European traditions, of which Puritanism was the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. In America's God , Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in ...
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Religious life in early America is often equated with fire-and-brimstone Puritanism, yet by the nineteenth century, Americans had moved away from the severe European traditions, of which Puritanism was the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. 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.
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