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

Example Sentences

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 Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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

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

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

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