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An interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays which look at aspects of the thought of Edwards and Franklin and consider their places in American culture.
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished,
address the little considered question of the role played by
religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion,
understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of
faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by
such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark
Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and
featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks
the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect
of American history.
The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great
middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism
American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the
Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately
believed in the promise of America. Beginning in 1773 with the
family patriarch, a twice-wounded Revolutionary War hero, the
Andersons amassed land throughout what was then the American west.
As the eminent religious historian Harry S. Stout argues, the story
of the Andersons is the story of America's experiment in republican
capitalism. Congressmen, diplomats, and military generals, the
Andersons enthusiastically embraced the emerging American gospel of
land speculation. In the process, they became apologists for
slavery and Indian removal, and worried anxiously that the
volatility of the market might lead them to ruin. Drawing on a vast
store of Anderson family records, Stout reconstructs their journey
to great wealth as they rode out the cataclysms of their time, from
financial panics to the Civil War and beyond. Through the Andersons
we see how the lure of wealth shaped American capitalism and the
nation's continental aspirations.
Commonly acknowledged as Anglo-America's most popular
eighteenth-century preacher, George Whitefield commanded mass
audiences across two continents through his personal charisma.
Harry Stout draws on a number of sources, including the newspapers
of Whitefield's day, to outline his subject's spectacular career as
a public figure. Although Whitefield here emerges as very much a
modern figures, given to shameless self-promotion and extravagant
theatricality, Stout also shows that he was from first to last a
Calvinist, earnest in his support of orthodox theological tenets
and sincere in his concern for the spiritual welfare of the
thousands to whom he preached.
"Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his
work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New
England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very
important book." - Journal of American History "Simply breathtaking
in scope. No one else has dared to grapple with the full sweep of
Puritan preaching form the founding of New England through the
American Revolution." - Nathan O. Hatch, University of Notre Dame
"A massive achievement will stand as the definitive work on this
important subject." - Reviews in American History "Impressive,
imaginative, sensible, and lucid." - Donald G. Matthews, University
of North Carolina and Chapel Hill "[Stout] has created a field of
scholarship hitherto neglected - the manuscript sermon as a source
of religious culture in colonial times. More than that, he has
shown the extent to which sermon notes add to our knowledge of the
times, notably for the period of the Great Awakening. And he has
done so with great insight." - New England Quarterly "So soundly
based on exhaustive research and so lucid in presentation, that
even its most surprising conclusions carry conviction. An
impressive achievement." - Daniel Walker Howe, author of What Hath
God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 "One of the
most impressive studies of Puritan New England society to appear in
this century....Throughout the work, Stout enriches, supplements
and revises much of the current knowledge about colonial New
England. His language, which is both precise and playful, makes the
volume a delight to read." -The Historian "Will surely become a
benchmark in the study of early American history and culture."
-Journal of the American Academy of Religion
The eighteen essays collected in this book had their origin in a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come.
Universally recognized as a seminal figure in American intellectual
history, Jonathan Edwards has been the focus of considerable
scholarly attention in a variety of academic disciplines, including
religion, history, literature, and philosophy. Because these
disciplines discuss him in relation to different intellectual
traditions, Edwards scholarship remains segmented. This volume
represents the first attempt to provide a synthetic vision of
Edwards and his contributions to American culture. Its fifteen
previously unpublished essays present the best contemporary
literary, historical, theological, and philosophical thinking on
Edwards, locating him in his full historical context and
demonstrating the continuity of his influence. Together, they
provide the fullest account to date of his role in the development
of the American consciousness. This volume is the first attempt to
provide a synthetic vision of Edwards and his contribution to the
development of the American consciousness. Fifteen previously
unpublished essays present the best contemporary literary,
historical, theological, and philosophical thinking on Edwards,
locating him in his full historical context and demonstrating the
continuity of his influence.
A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the
War Between the States
The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of
ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a
moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S.
Stout measures the gap between those claims and the war's actual
conduct. Ranging from the home front to the trenches and drawing on
a wealth of contemporary documents, Stout explores the lethal mix
of propaganda and ideology that came to justify slaughter on and
off the battlefield. At a time when our country is once again at
war, "Upon the Altar of the Nation" is a deeply necessary book.
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