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John Calvin's American Legacy (Hardcover)
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John Calvin's American Legacy (Hardcover)
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John Calvin's American Legacy explores the ways Calvin and the
Calvinist tradition have influenced American life. Though there are
books that trace the role Calvin and Calvinism have played in the
national narrative, they tend to focus, as books, on particular
topics and time periods. This work, divided into three sections, is
the first to present studies that, taken together, represent the
breadth of Calvinism's impact in the United States. In addition,
each section moves chronologically, ranging from colonial times to
the twenty-first century. After a brief introduction focused on the
life of Calvin and some of the problems involved in how he is
viewed and studied, the volume moves into the first section -
"Calvin, Calvinism, and American Society " - which looks at the
economics of the Colonial period, Calvin and the American identity,
and the evidence for Calvin's influence on American democracy. The
book's second section examines theology, addressing the
relationship between Jonathan Edwards's church practice and
Calvin's, the Calvinist theological tradition in the nineteenth
century, how Calvin came to be understood in the historiography of
Williston Walker and Perry Miller, and Calvin's influence on some
of the theologies of the twentieth century. The third section,
"John Calvin, Calvinism, and American Letters,looks at Calvinism's
influence on such writers as Samson Occom, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Max Weber, Mark Twain, and John Updike. Altogether, this volume
demonstrates the wide-ranging impact of Calvin's thinking
throughout American history and society.
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