Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Introduction: Theology in America 1
5. Part 1. Calvinist Origins
6. 2. The New England Calvinists 25
7. 3. Rationalism Resisted 56
8. 4. Nature, the Supernatural, and Virtue 79
9. 5. Jonathan Edwards 102
10. 6. Fragmentation in New England 127
11. Part 2. The Baconian Style
12. 7. The Deists 159
13. 8. Evidential Christianity 173
14. 9. Unitarian Virtue 197
15. 10. Universal Salvation 218
16. 11. Episcopal Theology and Tradition 234
17. 12. Methodist Perfection 256
18. 13. The Baptists and Calvinist Diversity 273
19. 14. Restoration 291
20. 15. Roots of Black Theology 306
21. 16. The Immediacy of Revelation 319
22. 17. Calvinism Revised 341
23. 18. ‘‘True Calvinism’’ Defended 370
24. Part 3. Alternatives to Baconian Reason
25. 19. Lutherans: Reason, Revival, and Confession 397
26. 20. Catholics: Reason and the Church 415
27. 21. The Transcendentalists: Intuition 434
28. 22. Horace Bushnell: Christian Comprehensiveness 452
29. 23. The Mercersburg Theology: Communal Reason 467
30. 24. Orestes Brownson and Isaac Hecker: Transcendental Catholicism 482
31. 25. The Dilemma of Slavery 494
32. 26 Afterword 505
33. Notes 513
34. Index 597