New England theology

American  

noun

1. Calvinism as modified and interpreted by the descendants of the Puritans in New England, especially Jonathan Edwards, becoming the dominant theology there from about 1730 to 1880.

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Etymology

Origin of New England theology

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

This discourse, as his only printed sermon, and as one which heralded a movement in New England theology which has never stopped from that day to this, deserves some special notice.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

In New England, theology and transcendentalism in turn dominated literature; and not a few of the group of writers who contributed to the Atlantic Monthly were profoundly influenced by the anti-slavery agitation.

From Poets of the South by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

The Germans call the whole New England theology rationalistic, in distinction from traditional.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various

How do you think New England theology would have fared if our fathers had been landed here instead of on Plymouth Rock?

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

It was rather the reaction of a speculative mind against the New England theology.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn