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| Genre/Form: | Church history |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gaustad, Edwin S. (Edwin Scott). Religious history of America. New York, Harper & Row [1966] (OCoLC)647549169 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edwin S Gaustad |
| ISBN: | 0060630930 9780060630935 |
| OCLC Number: | 174445 |
| Description: | xxiii, 421 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Part I: Age of exploration : The admiral and the church ; From the halls of Montezuma ; Fish, fur and faith ; Hakluyt and Purchas -- Part II: Age of colonization : "Almighty God hath opened the gate": Virginia ; "One small candle may light a thousand": Puritan New England ; Conversion ; Legislation ; Education ; Endurance ; "A full liberty in religious concernments" : Rhode Island ; "The gospel into a fruitful bosom": Maryland ; "We put the power in the people": Middle Colonies ; New York and Delaware ; New Jersey ; Pennsylvania ; "An excellent school to learn Christ in": Carolina and Georgia -- Part III: Age of expansion : Liberty and law ; Liberty won ; Liberty proclaimed ; Liberty secured ; Freedom and the frontier ; Utopianism ; Transcendentalism ; Methodism ; Pietism ; Individualism ; Reductionism ; Perfectionism ; Revivalism ; Manifest destiny ; One land, one flag ; One Lord, one faith ; From shore to shore - and more ; A house of faith divided ; The moral mission of religion ; Consensus on slavery ; Conflict over slavery ; Lincoln and God's purposes ; "To finish the work: ; The making of America: immigration and assimilation ; "The homeless, tempest-tost" ; "America for Americans" ; "And crown thy good" ; A changing order: factory and town ; Redemption of persons ; Mass evangelism ; Reform ; Philanthropy ; New organizations ; Redemption of society ; Industrial problems ; Urban problems. Part IV: This nation under God: at worship : The Word ; The Bible in American life ; History ; Morality ; Culture ; The Bible in American literature ; The belief ; Abraham Heschel ; Reinhold Niebuhr ; Gustave Weigel ; The liturgy ; Daily devotion ; Weekly worship ; The liturgical year ; Liturgy and life ; The house -- Part V: This nation under God: at work : The mission at home ; Peace and war ; "With liberty and justice for all" ; Prosperity and conformity ; The mission abroad ; World evangelism ; Rescue and relief ; Unity and understanding ; Education ; Parochial schools ; Supplemental classes ; Shared, released and dismissed time ; Worship or study ; Higher education ; Democracy -- Chronology: Important dates in America's religious history. |
| Series Title: | The library bookshelf |
| Responsibility: | by Edwin scott Gaustad |
Abstract:
Survey of various religious ideas, institutions and personalities from the age of exploration to the present.
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