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

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New England theology

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 Harriet Beecher Stowe

And in these days, thank God! religious toleration is creeping over the forbidding rock of New England theology, much as the delicate vines of the May-flower crept over and beautified the hard, unyielding soil.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

High Lutheranism had issued in the same externality in Germany before Kant and Schleiermacher, and the New England theology before Channing and Bushnell.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore

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

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 Leonard Woolsey Bacon