Conforti, Joseph A,

Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity movement : Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and reform in New England between the Great Awakenings / Joseph A. Conforti. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Christian University Press : available from Erdmans, (c)1981. - viii, 241 pages ; 22 cm.



New light and a new divinity -- The Connecticut background -- The Great Awakening and the schools of the prophets -- The call of western New England -- The "paper war" of theology -- The new divinity and the churches -- A puritan in Babylon -- Disinterested: a theology of social reform -- True virtue and social reform: slavery and the revolution -- The conversion of Africa: foreign missions and black colonization -- The new divinity codified -- The second Great Awakening -- The man and the movement.



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