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

For what is that genius of Christianity that has ever found its truest exponent in the teachings of the New England theology, and in the lives and practice of her people?

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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 F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

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

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins

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 Oliver Wendell Holmes

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