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New England theology

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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.


Etymology

Origin of New England theology

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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 Moore, Edward Caldwell

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

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

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn

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

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