This study examines how the concept of conversion and specifically the legacy of the doctrine of preparation, as articulated in Puritan Reformed theology and transplanted to the Massachusetts Bay colony, remained a vital cultural force shaping developments in American literature, theology, and, ultimately, in philosophy in the form of pragmatism.
This study examines how the concept of conversion and specifically the legacy of the doctrine of preparation, as articulated in Puritan Reformed theology and transplanted to the Massachusetts Bay colony, remained a vital cultural force shaping developments in American literature, theology, and, ultimately, in philosophy in the form of pragmatism.
Andrea Knutson is Assistant Professor of Early American Literature, Oakland University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * 1.: A Believing Attitude * 2.: "Something That is Seen, That is Wonderful": Jonathan Edwards and the Feeling of Conviction * 3.: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the "Universal Impulse to Believe" * 4.: William James's Uncertain Universe: Theory as Theology in The Varieties of Religious Experience * Index
* Acknowledgments * List of Abbreviations * Introduction * 1.: A Believing Attitude * 2.: "Something That is Seen, That is Wonderful": Jonathan Edwards and the Feeling of Conviction * 3.: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the "Universal Impulse to Believe" * 4.: William James's Uncertain Universe: Theory as Theology in The Varieties of Religious Experience * Index
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