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America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
AuthorMark Noll
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Published2002
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN978-0195182996

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Publication

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Content

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America's God charts a history of Protestant evangelical theology in the United States from 1720 to 1865, focusing primarily on theology during the American Revolution and afterward.[1]

Genre

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Noll introduces the work as a "contextual history of Christian theology".[2] Daniel Walker Howe described it as intellectual history,[3] and historian Margaret Bendroth called it "unapologetically […] intellectual history, albeit carefully contextualized with other narratives of economic, political, and social change".[4] Religious studies scholar Ann Taves considered it "the first extended effort to write a contextual or social history of American Protestant theology through the Civil War".[5] According to Publishers Weekly, America's God's differs from "old-fashioned intellectual history" by grounding the history in social contexts that "shaped, and were shaped by, theology".[6] Quoting the book, reviewer Trisha Posey called it a "social history of ideas".[7]

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Historian Nathan O. Hatch called America's God Noll's "magnum opus" and a "magisterial synthesis" of "a lifetime of immersion" in primary sources and secondary sources.[8]

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America's God received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.[6] The Historical Society awarded it the 2004 Eugene D. Genovese Best Book in American History Prize.[9]

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Journal of the Historical Society symposium

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American Society of Church History forum

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"Forum on Antebellum American Protestantism"

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Citations

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  1. ^ Stein (2003, p. 445).
  2. ^ Numbers (2003, p. 194) quotes Noll (2002, p. 3).
  3. ^ Howe (2004, p. 399).
  4. ^ Bendroth (2003, p. 441).
  5. ^ Taves (2003, p. 453).
  6. ^ a b Publishers Weekly (2002, p. 71).
  7. ^ Posey (2005, p. 97), citing Noll (2002, p. 5).
  8. ^ Hatch (2017, p. x).
  9. ^ Thomas, David. "Educating for Shalom". Graduate and Faculty Ministries (review). InterVarsity. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2024.