In American Protestant Theology, Luigi Giussani traces the history of the most meaningful theological expressions and the cultural significance of American Protestantism, from its origins in seventeenth-century Puritanism to the 1950s. Giussani clarifies and assesses elements of Protestantism such as the democratic approach to Church-State relations, "The Great Awakening," Calvinism and Trinitarianism, and liberalism. His rich references and analytical descriptions reconstruct an overview of the development of a religion that has great importance in the context of spiritual life and American culture. He also displays full respect for the religious depth from which Protestantism was born and where it can reach, and expresses great admiration for its most prominent thinkers and spiritual leaders, including Jonathan Edwards, Horace Bushnell, Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich. Further testament to Giussani's clear-minded and comprehensive knowledge of Christianity, American Protestant Theology makes the work of a master theologian available in English for the first time.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 280/.40973
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Translation of: Teologia protestante americana Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-us---
- ISBN
- 9780773589513 9780773541979
- LCCN
- BX4811
- LCCN Item number
- G5713 2013eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxxiv, 238 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00233530 (OCoLC)865475314 (CaOOCEL)446128
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- Preface to the First Edition 34
- 1 Puritan Origins 38
- 2 New England Theology 52
- 3 The Liberal Movement 88
- 4 Realism 135
- 5 Recent Trends 168
- Appendices 184
- Appendix one - Aspects of the Conception of History in Reinhold Niebuhr 186
- Appendix two - Reinhold Niebuhr and the Foundations of His Ethics 207
- Appendix three - The Recovery of Religious Values in American Personalism and the Philosophy of Edgar Sheffield Brightman 224
- Notes 238
- Index 266
