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

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

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

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

XII.—Close of the Colonial Era 181-207 Growth of the New England theology, 181.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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)