New England theology

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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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Origin of New England theology

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby New England theology

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How to use New England theology in a sentence

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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
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Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
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Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
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We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
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