The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell.
By Robert Bruce Mullin. Eerdmans, 296 pp., $21.00 paperback
HORACE BUSHNELL (1802-1876) is "more often talked about than read," this volume in Eerdmans's Library of Religious Biography series declares. Church historian Robert Bruce Mullin sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of American theology. Rather than giving the usual interpretation of Bushnell as a pioneer of 19th-century American ...