| Description |
630 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The American heritage series ; 73
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| Contents |
Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) : Puritan pastor and preacher. The activity of faith, or, Abraham's imitators (1651) -- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) : apostle to the Age of Reason. The circle of Edwards' thought : excerpts from his published and unpublished writings (ca. 1720-1757) -- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) : Unitarian patriarch. The essence of the Christian religion (1831) -- Nathaniel William Taylor (1786-1858) : theologian of New School Protestantism. Concio ad clerum : a sermon (1828) ; On human nature, sin, and freedom -- Charles Hodge (1797-1878) : architect of Princeton orthodoxy. Systematic theology (1872). On theological method ; The Protestant rule of faith -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) : Transcendentalist prophet. The divinity school address (1838) -- Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) : father of progressive orthodoxy. Preliminary dissertation on the nature of language as related to thought and spirit (1849) -- John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) : romantic church reformer. The mystical presence (1846). The reformed or Calvinistic doctrine of the Lord's Supper ; The modern puritan theory ; Biblical argument -- Charles Porterfield Krauth (1823-1883) : Lutheran confessionalist. The conservative reformation and its theology (1871). Preface ; The Reformation : its occasion and cause ; The primary confession : the Confession of Augsburg ; The doctrine of the Lord's Supper -- Josiah Royce (1855-1916) : idealist philosopher of religion. The sources of religious insight (1912). The Unity of the Spirit and the Invisible Church -- William James (1842-1910) : philosopher of religious experience. The varieties of religious experience (1902). The reality of the unseen ; Conclusions -- Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) : champion of the Social Gospel. Christianity and the social crisis (1907). Introduction ; The social aims of Jesus ; A theology for the Social Gospel (1917). The super-personal forces of evil -- H. Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962) : neo-orthodox theologian. The Church against the world (1935). The question of the Church ; Toward the independence of the Church. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. Bibliography: pages 93-107. |
| Contents |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
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Bibliography: p. 93-107. |
| Subject |
Theology, Doctrinal -- United States -- History.
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Theology -- Protestant authors.
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