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Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism (Hardcover, New)
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Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism (Hardcover, New)
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During the eighteenth century Presbyterians of the Middle Colonies
were separated by divergent allegiances, mostly associated with
groups migrating from New England with an English Puritan
background and from northern Ireland with a Scotch-lrish tradition.
Those differences led first to a fiery ordeal of ecclesiastical
controversy and then to a spiritual awakening and a blending of
diversity into a new order, American Presbyterianism. Several men
stand out not only for having been tested by this ordeal but also
for having made real contributions to the new order that arose from
the controversy. The most important of these was Jonathan
Dickinson. Bryan Le Beau has written the first book on Dickinson,
whom historians have called "the most powerful mind in his
generation of American divines." One of the founders of the College
of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and its first president,
Dickinson was a central figure during the First Great Awakening and
one of the leading lights of colonial religious life. Le Beau
examines Dickinson's writings and actions, showing him to have been
a driving force in forming the American Presbyterian Church,
accommodating diverse traditions in the early church, and resolving
the classic dilemma of American religious history -- the
simultaneous longing for freedom of conscience and the need for
order. This account of Dickinson's life and writings provides a
rare window into a time of intense turmoil and creativity in
American religious history.
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