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Predestination : the American career of a contentious doctrine / Peter J. Thuesen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thuesen, Peter Johannes, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Predestination--History of doctrines.
- Predestination.
- United States--Church history.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Peter Thuesen shows that the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices - the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent of God's providential involvement in human affairs - and has fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries.
- Contents:
- The predestinarian labyrinth: historical background
- The agony and the ecstasy: predestination in New England puritanism
- "Shall the hellish doctrine stand?" enlightenment doubts and evangelical division
- From Methodists to Mormons: attacking predestination in the young republic
- Domesticating a doctrine: Catholics and Lutherans
- Debating a doctrine: Presbyterians and Baptists.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-33565-0
- 0-19-972599-3
- 9786612335655
- OCLC:
- 475865554
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