Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | December 1, 2006| | Copyright

Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War. By E. Brooks Holifield. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, 617 pp., $37.50.

This masterful overview by E. Brooks Holifield is a major contribution to American church history. This work is comprehensive and surveys the vast landscape of theology and theologians in the ante-bellum period. The author organizes the book according to a denominational pattern, noting that theology in America is eminently denominational. The three sections of the book are divided into the following categories: Reformed ...

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