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

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

The religious life of this period was manifested in part in the growth of the New England theology.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

The New England theology is not so called as being confined to New England.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn

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)