John Calvin's American Legacy

ISBN: 9780195390971 出版年：2010 页码：304 Davis, Thomas Oxford University Press

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 & 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