ABSTRACT
First published in 1907, this text provides a scientific treatment of New England theology and American dogmatic history. Frank Hugh Foster analyses the eighteenth-century rise of the school of New England theology, which became the dominant school of thought in New England congregationalism and, as argued by Foster, a ‘world phenomenon’. The chapters arise from readings of the various distinguished views of such contemporaries as Jonathan Edwards, Joseph Bellamy and Samuel Hopkins, placing them within the historical and theological context in which they developed. A fascinating and detailed title, this reissue will be of value to students of theology and Church history with a particular interest in the development of American religious thought.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |43 pages
The Historical Background
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
chapter |32 pages
The First Century in New England, 1620–1720
part |59 pages
Jonathan Edwards
chapter |15 pages
Edwards' Earlier Labors
chapter |20 pages
The Treatise on the Freedom of the Will
chapter |22 pages
Edwards' Remaining Metaphysical Treatises
part |82 pages
Edwards' Contemporaries and Colaborers
chapter |22 pages
Joseph Bellamy
chapter |33 pages
Samuel Hopkins
chapter |25 pages
Hopkins' System of Theology
part |83 pages
The Developing School
chapter |35 pages
Eschatology and Atonement
chapter |46 pages
The Development of the Theory of the Will
part |96 pages
The Great Controversies
chapter |43 pages
The Unitarian Controversy
chapter |24 pages
The Universalist Controversy Concluded
chapter |27 pages
The Systems of Theology, 1800–1840
part |174 pages
The Ripened Product