Divided Heart - Essays on Protestantism and the Enlightenment in America

Zusatztext Few historians have written for as long or as well about the American mind of Henry May. Klappentext Bringing together essays by a leading intellectual and religious historian! The Divided Heart is a collection of recent reflections! sometimes with a considerable autobiographical element! by Henry F. May on the conflict between Protestantism and the Enlightenment that runs throughout thehistory of American culture. Summarizing May's opinions on recent historiographical arguments! the introduction to The Divided Heart tells of his own development as a historian! major influences upon his thinking! and how his practicing assumptions grew. Covering religion! there are essays on earlyAmerican history! Jonathan Edwards! Harriet Beecher Stowe! Reinhold Niebuhr! and "reflections on the uneasy relation" between religion and American intellectual history. Relating to the Enlightenment! there are essays on the Constitution and the "Jeffersonian Moment." Suggesting a new andinterdisciplinary approach! May's last essay deals with the end of the Enlightenment and the beginning of Romanticism! an area of history with which he has never before dealt. Zusammenfassung This is a collection of essays, mainly written in the 1980s, by one of America's leading historians. Bringing together in one volume May's major interests, there are essays on the Constitution and the Enlightenment, Jefferson and the Enlightenment, the `Jefferson Moment' in the Enlightenment, and Franklin in the Enlightenment, and on Jonathan Edwards, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvinism in America, Rheinhold Niebuhr, and `reflections on the uneasy relation' between religion and American intellectual history.

Product details

• Authors: Henry F. May, Henry F. (Professor Emeritus of History May
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.1991
• EAN: 9780195058994
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505899-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era), Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches