A History of American Christianity

Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Casa editrice: e-artnow

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History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon primarily highlights the glories and triumphs of christianity's development in the united states. In particular, the author focuses on how all kinds of Christians from many different countries have met and come together in America. Optimistically, Bacon looks forward to a future in which these christians can live united in faith. 
Contents: 
Providential Preparations for the Discovery of America
French Christianity in America
Puritan Beginnings of the Church in Virginia 
Maryland and the Carolinas
Dutch Calvinists and Swedish Lutherans
The Church in New England.
The Middle Colonies and Georgia
The Eve of the Great Awakening
The Great Awakening
Close of the Colonial Era
Reconstruction
The Second Awakening
Organized Beneficence
Conflicts With Public Wrongs
A Decade of Controversies and Schisms
The Great Immigration
The Civil War
After the Civil War
The Church in Theology and Literature
Tendencies Toward a Manifestation of Unity

Disponibile da: 09/12/2022.

Lunghezza di stampa: 332 pagine.

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