American Protestant Theology

A Historical Sketch

Luigi Giussani, Damian Bacich

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780773543003
• eBook ISBN: 9780773589520
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In American Protestant Theology, Luigi Giussani traces the history of the most meaningful theological expressions and the cultural significance of American Protestantism, from its origins in seventeenth-century Puritanism to the 1950s. Giussani clarifies and assesses elements of Protestantism such as the democratic approach to Church-State relations, "The Great Awakening," Calvinism and Trinitarianism, and liberalism. His rich references and analytical descriptions reconstruct an overview of the development of a religion that has great importance in the context of spiritual life and American culture. He also displays full respect for the religious depth from which Protestantism was born and where it can reach, and expresses great admiration for its most prominent thinkers and spiritual leaders, including Jonathan Edwards, Horace Bushnell, Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich. Further testament to Giussani's clear-minded and comprehensive knowledge of Christianity, American Protestant Theology makes the work of a master theologian available in English for the first time.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Preface to the First Edition
• 1 Puritan Origins
• 2 New England Theology
• 3 The Liberal Movement
• 4 Realism
• 5 Recent Trends
• APPENDICES
• Index