John Calvin's American Legacy explores the influence of Calvin and his heirs on American life, highlighting how the Calvinist tradition is woven into the fabric of American society, theology, and letters. From colonial economics to twenty-first-century fiction, the Calvinist imprint is unmistakable. This work helps readers comprehend that imprint in all its contextualized richness. INDICE: 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 AmericanPolitics, 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539097-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 04/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés