Thomas Davis

John Calvin's American Legacy (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Though his influence on American society has often been forgotten or misunderstood, John Calvin played a formative role in the traditions of almost every sector of American life. This wide-ranging study, comprising twelve essays, shows for the first time the extraordinary extent to which Calvinist thoughts and practices are woven into the fabric of American society, theology, and letters, from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. John Calvin's American Legacy examines the economics of the Colonial period, Calvin's effect on American identity, and the evidence for Calvin's influence on American democracy. The book next addresses Calvin's critical role in American theology, inspecting the relationship between Jonathan Edwards's and Calvin's church practices, the diverse views on the Calvinist theological tradition in the nineteenth century, the ways in which Calvin was understood in the historiography of Williston Walker and Perry Miller, and Calvin's influence on twentieth-century theologies. Finally, the book explores Calvinism's influence on American literature, examining the work of such writers as Samson Occom, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Max Weber, Mark Twain, John Updike, and Marilynne Robinson. This important book is the first to introduces readers to the breadth and depth of Calvin's influence along the spectrum of American thought and society, from the 18th century to modern times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199889297
• Artikelnr.: 42513148

Autorenporträt

Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, and Thomas H. Lake Scholar in Religion and Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction, by Thomas J. Davis
* Section I John Calvin, Calvinism, and American Society
* 1.: Calvin and the Social Order in Early America: Moral Ideals and
Transatlantic Empire, by Mark Valeri
* 2.: Calvinism and American National Identity, by David Little
* 3.: Implausible: Calvinism and American Politics, by D. G. Hart
* Section II John Calvin, Calvinism, and American Theology
* 4.: Practical Ecclesiology in John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards, by
Amy Plantinga Pauw
* 5.: "Falling Away from the General Faith of the Reformation"? The
Contest over Calvinism in Nineteenth-Century America, by Douglas A.
Sweeney
* 6.: Calvin and Calvinism within Congregational and Unitarian
Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America, by David D. Hall
* 7.: Whose Calvin, Which Calvinism? John Calvin and the Development of
Twentieth-Century American Theology, by Stephen D. Crocco
* Section III John Calvin, Calvinism, and American Letters
* 8.: "Strange Providence": Indigenist Calvinism in the Writings of
Mohegan Minister Samson Occom (1723-1792), by Denise T. Askin
* 9.: Geneva's Crystalline Clarity: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Max Weber
on Calvinism and the American Character, by Peter J. Thuesen
* 10.: "Jonathan Edwards, Calvin, Baxter and Co.": Mark Twain and the
Comedy of Calvinism, by Joe B. Fulton
* 11.: Cold Comforts: John Updike, Protestant Thought and the Semantics
of Paradox, by Kyle A. Pasewark
* Conclusion John Calvin at "Home" in American Culture