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The Puritan as Yankee : a life of Horace Bushnell / Robert Bruce Mullin ; [foreword by Allen C. Guelzo].
LIBRA BX7260.B9 M79 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mullin, Robert Bruce.
- Series:
- Library of religious biography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876.
- Bushnell, Horace.
- Congregational churches--United States--Clergy--Biography.
- Congregational churches.
- Christian sociology.
- History.
- United States.
- Clergy.
- Theologians--United States--Biography.
- Theologians.
- Christian sociology--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 296 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., [2002]
- Summary:
- Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) is one of the most studied figures in nineteenth-century American religious history, but there has been no major biography of him for almost fifty years. The Puritan as Yankee provides a much-needed -- and provocatively new -- look at this famous American Christian thinker.
- Based on a close reading of Bushnell's writings and unpublished sources as well as careful attention to how contemporaries saw him, Robert Bruce Mullin's book throws fresh light on its subject. Breaking from the long tradition of portraying Bushnell as the father of American liberalism, Mullin offers a fundamentally new picture of Bushnell as a man deeply concerned with the questions of his age, and a far more interesting figure than previously thought. Bushnell emerges here as an innovator, a Yankee tinkerer in the field of religion, and a profoundly conservative figure.
- Expertly researched and enjoyable to read, this volume tells an important chapter in American religious history.
- Contents:
- 1. Taking the Measure of a Man 10
- 2. Jerusalem and the World 28
- 3. Explaining the Faith; Defending the Faith 52
- 4. The Puritan-Yankee Abroad 74
- 5. Rescuing the Children and Reuniting the Puritans 99
- 6. Reimagining Theology in the Name of Religion 127
- 7. The Bushnell Controversy 151
- 8. Nature and Supernature 180
- 9. Slavery, War, and Sacrifice 208
- 10. Holding the Faith in a Strange Land 234.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802842526
- OCLC:
- 49625116
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