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American Protestant theology : a historical sketch / Luigi Giussani ; translator Damian Bacich ; author of introduction, etc. Archibald J. Spencer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giussani, Luigi.
- Standardized Title:
- Teologia protestante americana. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theology, Doctrinal--United States--History.
- Theology, Doctrinal.
- Protestant churches--United States--Doctrines--History.
- Protestant churches.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In American Protestant Theology, Luigi Giussani traces the history of the most meaningful theological expressions and the cultural significance of American Protestantism, from its origins in seventeenth-century Puritanism to the 1950s. Giussani clarifies and assesses elements of Protestantism such as the democratic approach to Church-State relations, "The Great Awakening," Calvinism and Trinitarianism, and liberalism. His rich references and analytical descriptions reconstruct an overview of the development of a religion that has great importance in the context of spiritual life and American culture. He also displays full respect for the religious depth from which Protestantism was born and where it can reach, and expresses great admiration for its most prominent thinkers and spiritual leaders, including Jonathan Edwards, Horace Bushnell, Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich. Further testament to Giussani's clear-minded and comprehensive knowledge of Christianity, American Protestant Theology makes the work of a master theologian available in English for the first time.
- Contents:
- Puritan Origins
- New England Theology
- The Liberal Movement
- Realism
- Recent Trends
- Appendices. Aspects of the Conception of History in Reinhold Niebuhr
- Reinhold Niebuhr and the Foundations of His Ethics
- The Recovery of Religious Values in American Personalism and the Philosophy of Edgar Sheffield Brightman.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 9, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780773589520
- 077358952X
- 9780773589513
- 0773589511
- OCLC:
- 865475314
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