Sources of Christian Theology in America

by Toulouse, Mark G.; Duke, James O.

• ISBN13: 9780687025244
• ISBN10: 0687025249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Abingdon Pr

Summary

This volume is intended as a companion to the story already told in Makers of Christian Theology in America (Abingdon, 1997) by scholars who sketched intellectual portraits of 91 thinkers formative in Christian theological discussion. Emphasis is on theologians or theologies which reach considerably beyond their denominational, regional, ethnic, or "school" support bases. The volume thus has selections of the sort standard and revisionist histories alike have cause to take into account in their field surveys. The focus is on the traditions of scholarly Christian church theology, and the selections offer access to substantive content at some considerable length, using complete and self-contained samples when possible, instead of snippets. The four eras of Christian theology's history in America covered by these sixty readings are the colonial, early national, post-Civil War to World War I, and twentieth-century developments.

Table of Contents

Introduction	15	(32)
Period 1: The Colonial Era (1607-1789)	47	(70)
Thomas Hooker
A Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline	47	(10)
John Cotton
Milk for Babes	57	(5)
The Twelve Fundamental Articles	62	(4)
Anne Hutchinson
The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court of Newtown	66	(5)
Cotton Mather
Essays to Do Good	71	(5)
Roger Williams
Bloudy Tenent of Persecution	76	(7)
Charles Chauncy
The Mystery Hid from Ages and Generations	83	(5)
Jonathan Edwards
Shewing What Are Distinguishing Signs of Truly Gracious and Holy Affections	88	(14)
Samuel Hopkins
The Application of Redemption	102	(9)
John Woolman
A Plea for the Poor or A Word of Remembrance and Caution to the Rich	111	(6)
Period 2: The National Era (1789-1865)	117	(150)
Nathaniel William Taylor
Concio Ad Clerum: A Sermon	117	(13)
Lemuel Haynes
Divine Decrees	130	(12)
Samuel Simon Schmucker
Discourse: Vocation of the American Lutheran Church	142	(6)
Charles Porterfield Krauth
The Confessional Principle of the Conservative Reformation	148	(5)
Charles Hodge
On Method	153	(12)
Nathan Bangs
Remarks on "Natural Ability" and "Moral Inability"	165	(9)
Phoebe Palmer
Entire Devotion to God	174	(4)
William Ellery Channing
Likeness to God	178	(11)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Address to Cambridge Divinity College	189	(12)
Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century	201	(6)
Frederick A. Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom	207	(4)
Orestes Augustus Brownson
The Mediatorial Life of Jesus	211	(13)
Isaac Thomas Hecker
An Exposition of the Church in View of Recent Difficulties and Controversies and the Present Needs of the Age	224	(5)
John Williamson Nevin
The Church	229	(6)
The Mystical Presence	235	(8)
Horace Bushnell
Our Gospel a Gift to the Imagination	243	(14)
Henry B. Smith
The Relations of Faith and Philosophy	257	(10)
Period 3: Post-Civil War and New Intellectual Frontier (1866-1918)	267	(124)
William Newton Clarke
God in Human Life	267	(7)
William P. DuBose
The Trinity	274	(6)
Newman Smyth
The Course of Moral Education and Progress of Revelation	280	(6)
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Some Fundamental Conclusions	286	(10)
Walter Rauschenbusch
The Social Aims of Jesus	296	(5)
The Kingdom of God	301	(11)
Frances E. Willard
The Spirit Giveth Life	312	(8)
Alexander Crummell
The Greatness of Christ	320	(8)
Henry M. Turner
God Is a Negro	328	(2)
Benjamin B. Warfield
Archibald A. Hodge
Inspiration	330	(8)
Lydia Maria Child
The Intermingling of Religions	338	(12)
Borden Parker Bowne
The Personal World	350	(8)
William James
The Will to Believe	358	(15)
Josiah Royce
The Realm of Grace	373	(12)
Daniel D. Whedon
Freedom Exalts Man and Dishonors God?	385	(6)
Period 4: The Modern Era (Since 1918)	391	(208)
Shailer Mathews
What Is Modernism?	391	(10)
Douglas C. Macintosh
Revelation	401	(8)
Henry Nelson Wieman
A Workable Idea of God	409	(8)
Edward J. Carnell
Authority	417	(10)
Paul Tillich
The Problem of Theological Method	427	(15)
Reinhold Niebuhr
Man as Sinner	442	(15)
H. Richard Niebuhr
Faith in Gods and in God	457	(13)
Georgia E. Harkness
Salvation	470	(10)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence and Racial Justice	480	(5)
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence	485	(7)
Marcus Garvey
The Resurrection of the Negro	492	(5)
John Courtney Murray
Is It Basket Weaving?	497	(7)
Georges Florovsky
Confessional Loyalty in the Ecumenical Movement	504	(9)
John Meyendorff
Orthodox Theology Today	513	(10)
John B. Cobb, Jr.
God as Creative-Responsive Love	523	(11)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
Feminist Theology in the Academy	534	(10)
Sallie McFague
The Christian Paradigm	544	(12)
Delores S. Williams
A Womanist Notion of Sin	556	(6)
James H. Cone
The Content and Method of Black Theology	562	(7)
Langdon Gilkey
Christian Discourse About God	569	(9)
Thomas J. J. Altizer
History as Apocalypse	578	(8)
George A. Lindbeck
Religion and Experience: A Pretheological Inquiry	586	(13)
Index	599