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America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln de Mark A. Noll

America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

Autor Mark A. Noll
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mai 2005

Observăm în ultimele decenii o reevaluare profundă a modului în care ideile religioase au modelat structurile politice moderne, iar America's God de Mark A. Noll reprezintă un punct de cotitură în această istoriografie. Autorul propune o „biografie” a etosului american, urmărind cum teologia s-a desprins de rădăcinile europene rigide pentru a crea ceva unic: un amestec de evanghelicism, bun-simț filosofic și idealism republican. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care Noll demonstrează că religia nu a fost doar un fundal social, ci motorul principal de auto-definire a națiunii americane.

Structura cărții este monumentală, acoperind 125 de ani de efervescență intelectuală. Autorul navighează cu precizie între predicile lui Jonathan Edwards și discursurile lui Abraham Lincoln, arătând cum încrederea nouă în rațiunea individuală și realitățile pieței economice au recalibrat credința. Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de Theology in America de E. Brooks Holifield, adăugând o analiză mult mai specifică asupra modului în care convingerile teologice au condus direct la schisma tragică a Războiului Civil. În timp ce Holifield oferă o privire de ansamblu asupra tradițiilor, Noll se concentrează pe „moneda intelectuală comună” care a unit și ulterior a dezbinat țara.

În contextul operei sale, America's God se situează ca o piesă centrală, rafinând temele explorate în America's Book. Dacă în acea lucrare accentul cădea pe utilizarea Scripturii, aici Noll analizează arhitectura filosofică din spatele interpretărilor. Stilul este academic, dar narativ, oferind o lectură densă care nu se limitează la dogmă, ci integrează contextul cultural și politic al epocii într-o sinteză magistrală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195182996
ISBN-10: 0195182995
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 160 x 233 x 39 mm
Greutate: 0.97 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare oricărui cititor pasionat de istoria ideilor și de modul în care religia influențează politica. America's God oferă o înțelegere rară a mecanismelor care au transformat teologia puritană într-o ideologie națională. Veți câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra rădăcinilor excepționalismului american și a modului în care interpretările biblice divergente pot fractura o societate, un subiect extrem de relevant și în contextul contemporan.

Despre autor

Mark A. Noll este unul dintre cei mai respectați istorici ai creștinismului din Statele Unite, deținând titlul de profesor McManis la Wheaton College și activând ca cercetător la Harvard Divinity School. Autor prolific, Noll s-a specializat în intersecția dintre istoria religioasă și cea politică a Americii de Nord. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără Turning Points și The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, volume care au redefinit studiul evanghelicismului. Activitatea sa este recunoscută pentru echilibrul dintre rigoarea academică și capacitatea de a face accesibile concepte teologice complexe unui public larg.

Descriere

Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America's God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos. In the 125 years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War, theology played an extraordinarily important role in American public and private life. Its evolution had a profound impact on America's self-definition. The changes taking place in American theology during this period were marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. Vividly set in the social and political events of the age, America's God is replete with the figures who made up the early American intellectual landscape, from theologians such as Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel W. Taylor, William Ellery Channing, and Charles Hodge and religiously inspired writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Stowe to dominant political leaders of the day like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. The contributions of these thinkers combined with the religious revival of the 1740s, colonial warfare with France, the consuming struggle for independence, and the rise of evangelical Protestantism to form a common intellectual coinage based on a rising republicanism and commonsense principles. As this Christian republicanism affirmed itself, it imbued in dedicated Christians a conviction that the Bible supported their beliefs over those of all others. Tragically, this sense of religious purpose set the stage for the Civil War, as the conviction of Christians both North and South that God was on their side served to deepen a schism that would soon rend the young nation asunder. Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology the legacies of which remain with us to this day.

Recenzii

"Essential reading for anyone interested in American history, politics and religion."--Themelios
"For academics-historians, theologians, and anyone else interested in the history of poltical thought, religion, philosophy, or theology-this book is essential reading"-- The Cresset Epiphany/Lent
"America's God deserves to be hailed as the most comprehensive treatment of early American religious thought. But it is far more than that, since Mr. Noll is tracking here not only the rise and fall of American theology but also the genesis of American civilization...Mr. Noll laments the passing of Christian republicanism and in the end suggests that a dose of Jonathan Edwards ('the last of the Puritans and the first of the evangelicals') may be just what contemporary America needs. You do not have to agree with that assessment to appreciate this fine book, which brings some of the nation's greatest thinkers very much alive."--Wall Street Journal
"Noll belongs to a talented group of historians who have transformed our understanding of American evangelicalism... Among Noll's many great strengths (all on display in this immense work) is his comparative method, based on wide learning in Protestant sources worldwide."--Times Literary Supplement
"Magisterial"The Weekly Standard
"Carefully documented and including an excellent bibliography, this insightful volume makes a useful contribution to the study of religion in America"--Library Journal
"Mark Noll's America's God delineates the Americanization of an Old World Protestantism with a breadth, learning, and sophistication unmatched by any other historian. Noll uncovers hidden, obscure figures even as he breathes new life into seemingly familiar names. Those who think intellectual history is dead or irrelevant will be jolted by the wondrous vigor of this exceptional, synoptic book. There's nothing else like it."--Jon Butler, author of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
"Noll has an astounding command of the vast literature...this is almost certainly the most significant work of American historical scholarship this year."--Atlantic Monthly
"America's God is a richly rewarding work. Awesomely researched and beautifully written, Mark Noll's magisterial study embeds American religious thought from the late Colonial era through the Civil War in its cultural and political context. Not only historians of religion, but everyone interested in the ideas and beliefs that shaped America's past--and still remain potent today--will profit from this insightful interpretive study."--Paul S. Boyer, Editor-in-Chief, The Oxford Companion to United States History
"Noll's book is the most comprehensive study of religious ideas in America that we have, and a work that makes the most sustained case for the impact of the spiritual on American public life. The book is original and well argued; and the research is impeccable. Some will not agree with Noll's arguments but everyone interested in religious thought will have to consider them."--Bruce Kuklick, author of A History of Philosophy in America: 1720-2000
"Those who might consider America's God an old-fashioned work about a bygone era and might therefore pass Noll by will do so at their peril...Argue over interfaith services after 9/11, prayers by football teams at public schools, in 'creationism' versus 'evolutionism,' Focus on the Family; 'the virtues,' the American moral condition, 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, the political power of the Religious Right--engage in any or all of these debates, and you will be contending in the shadow of the achievements of Noll's cast of characters."-- Books & Culture
"This 'social history of theology' in America, from the colonial era through the Civil War, promises to reshape the way we think about American religion, and, indeed, American history...Noll's trademark clarity--both in analysis and in prose--is in evidence here...Equally obvious is Noll's erudite mastery of everything from Puritan ecclesiology to Scottish moral philosophy. This is, finally, the magisterial work that has long been expected from one of our leading historians."--Publishers Weekly
"A broadly based and solid account of the surprising evolution of Christian theology in America during the golden age of Protestant evangelicalism. Mark Noll's magnum opus is a notable achievement of Christian and historical scholarship."--Daniel Walker Howe, Rhodes Professor of American History, Oxford University
"The wonderfully prolific Noll-as fine a historian as America now boasts-offers a rich and learned and deeply thoughtful magnum opus that is destined to shape discussions of the history of American religion and politics for a long time. Everyone who pretends to an interest in American history and American politics, to say nothing of American religion, must read this book."--The New Republic