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- English
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195174275
ISBN-13
9780195174274
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70937549
Product Key Features
Book Title
Predestination : the American Career of a Contentious Doctrine
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Christianity / History, Christian Church / History, Free Will & Determinism
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Yes
Genre
Religion, Philosophy
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Hardcover
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1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
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6.4 in
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LCCN
2008-049919
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Thuesen's impressive book ultimately demonstrates that pre-destination was damned from the beginning in America. Its Arminian deniers had the advantage of this nation's Enlightenment birth, liberty-loving republican youth, and the biblicism both traditions inspired." --Lutheran Quarterly"His thesis is that predestination provides the golden thread that runs through the complex history of American churches Although the thread sometimes runs a little thinner than the author would like, the book is commendably concise and accessible, filled with insight, and leavened with the occasional flash of dry wit The great virtue of the book is that, without taking sides among the combatants, Mr. Thuesen manages to capture the significance of their enterprise. It is nothing less than an unflinching commitment to living always mindful of the eye of eternity." --Wall Street Journal"Surprisingly, Thuesen makes the history of a doctrine-one riddled with arcane terminology and hair-splitting distinctions-not only accessible but also engaging. He has produced an intellectual history that puts ideas in their social context and takes seriously the lives of the men and women who thought about them." --Christianity Today"Peter Thuesen has written a careful and compelling historical account of the way in which predestination has vexed and engaged the church in the United States. . . . This book is a compelling reminder of where we have been, what is entrusted to us, and how much we have forgotten." --Walter Brueggemann, Christian Century "Theology still matters in American religious history, and I cannot think of a book that makes that case more effectively than Peter Thuesen's subtle, learned account of predestination's fate." --Thomas S. Kidd, Church History "Peter Thuesen's history of this most intractable of Christian doctrines manages-without ever taking its subject less than seriously-to be surprising, enlightening, and unexpectedly entertaining." --Arnold Hunt, Church Times "This is a very fine, useful, and readable book." --Choice "Predestination is a timely book in light of the current wave of debate over Calvinism in American Baptist and evangelical circles. The doctrine of predestination, to which virtually all conservative Christians subscribe in some form, has enjoyed recurring revivals often fraught with great controversy. Thuesen masterfully describes its "career" throughout especially American church history."--Religious Studies Review, "Predestination is a timely book in light of the current wave of debate over Calvinism in American Baptist and evangelical circles. The doctrine of predestination, to which virtually all conservative Christians subscribe in some form, has enjoyed recurring revivals often fraught with great controversy. Thuesen masterfully describes its "career" throughout especially American church history."--Religious Studies Review, "Thuesen's impressive book ultimately demonstrates that pre-destination was damned from the beginning in America. Its Arminian deniers had the advantage of this nation's Enlightenment birth, liberty-loving republican youth, and the biblicism both traditions inspired." --Lutheran Quarterly "His thesis is that predestination provides the golden thread that runs through the complex history of American churches Although the thread sometimes runs a little thinner than the author would like, the book is commendably concise and accessible, filled with insight, and leavened with the occasional flash of dry wit The great virtue of the book is that, without taking sides among the combatants, Mr. Thuesen manages to capture the significance of their enterprise. It is nothing less than an unflinching commitment to living always mindful of the eye of eternity." --Wall Street Journal "Surprisingly, Thuesen makes the history of a doctrine-one riddled with arcane terminology and hair-splitting distinctions-not only accessible but also engaging. He has produced an intellectual history that puts ideas in their social context and takes seriously the lives of the men and women who thought about them." --Christianity Today "Peter Thuesen has written a careful and compelling historical account of the way in which predestination has vexed and engaged the church in the United States. . . . This book is a compelling reminder of where we have been, what is entrusted to us, and how much we have forgotten." --Walter Brueggemann, Christian Century "Theology still matters in American religious history, and I cannot think of a book that makes that case more effectively than Peter Thuesen's subtle, learned account of predestination's fate." --Thomas S. Kidd, Church History "Peter Thuesen's history of this most intractable of Christian doctrines manages-without ever taking its subject less than seriously-to be surprising, enlightening, and unexpectedly entertaining." --Arnold Hunt, Church Times "This is a very fine, useful, and readable book." --Choice "Predestination is a timely book in light of the current wave of debate over Calvinism in American Baptist and evangelical circles. The doctrine of predestination, to which virtually all conservative Christians subscribe in some form, has enjoyed recurring revivals often fraught with great controversy. Thuesen masterfully describes its "career" throughout especially American church history."--Religious Studies Review, In a ground-breaking historical work... Thuesen considers predestination and its inseparable links to other questions of Christian belief, including the exsistance of purgatory and hell and the extent of Gods's providential involvement in human affairs., I began to read and was so drawn into the subject that it was difficult to put the bookdown...Whatever your theological background or country of origin, you will be informed and helped to view the issues from a fresh perspective., Theology still matters in American religious history, and I cannot think of a book that makes that case more effectively than Peter Thuesen's subtle, learned account of predestination's fate (pun intended) in American history., "[Predestination] is commendably concise and accessible, filled with insight, and leavened with the occasional flash of dry wit. ...The great virtue of the book is that, without taking sides among the combatants, Mr. Thuesen manages to capture the significance of their enterprise. It is nothing less than an unflinching commitment to living always mindful of the eye of eternity. Ultimately Mr. Thuesen mourns the decline of mystery in modern life; "Predestination" pays noble tribute to that sense of awe before the divine that theology captures only through a glass darkly." --The Wall Street Journal, "Thuesen's impressive book ultimately demonstrates that pre-destination was damned from the beginning in America. Its Arminian deniers had the advantage of this nation's Enlightenment birth, liberty-loving republican youth, and the biblicism both traditions inspired." --Lutheran Quarterly"His thesis is that predestination provides the golden thread that runs through the complex history of American churches Although the thread sometimes runs a little thinner than the author would like, the book is commendably concise and accessible, filled with insight, and leavened with the occasional flash of dry wit The great virtue of the book is that, without taking sides among the combatants, Mr. Thuesen manages to capture the significance of theirenterprise. It is nothing less than an unflinching commitment to living always mindful of the eye of eternity." --Wall Street Journal"Surprisingly, Thuesen makes the history of a doctrine-one riddled with arcane terminology and hair-splitting distinctions-not only accessible but also engaging. He has produced an intellectual history that puts ideas in their social context and takes seriously the lives of the men and women who thought about them." --Christianity Today"Peter Thuesen has written a careful and compelling historical account of the way in which predestination has vexed and engaged the church in the United States. . . . This book is a compelling reminder of where we have been, what is entrusted to us, and how much we have forgotten." --Walter Brueggemann, Christian Century"Theology still matters in American religious history, and I cannot think of a book that makes that case more effectively than Peter Thuesen's subtle, learned account of predestination's fate." --Thomas S. Kidd, Church History"Peter Thuesen's history of this most intractable of Christian doctrines manages-without ever taking its subject less than seriously-to be surprising, enlightening, and unexpectedly entertaining." --Arnold Hunt, Church Times"This is a very fine, useful, and readable book." --Choice"Predestination is a timely book in light of the current wave of debate over Calvinism in American Baptist and evangelical circles. The doctrine of predestination, to which virtually all conservative Christians subscribe in some form, has enjoyed recurring revivals often fraught with great controversy. Thuesen masterfully describes its "career" throughout especially American church history."--Religious Studies Review, "[Predestination] is commendably concise and accessible, filled with insight, and leavened with the occasional flash of dry wit. ...The great virtue of the book is that, without taking sides among the combatants, Mr. Thuesen manages to capture the significance of their enterprise. It is nothing less than an unflinching commitment to living always mindful of the eye of eternity. Ultimately Mr. Thuesen mourns the decline of mystery in modern life; "Predestination" pays noble tribute to that sense of awe before the divine that theology captures only through a glass darkly." --The Wall Street Journal "Whatever your views on predestination, you will profit greatly from this thoughtful book . . . . Peter Thuesen brings fresh perspectives to bear on this much-contested subject." --Christianity Today, "His thesis is that predestination provides the golden thread that runs through the complex history of American churches Although the thread sometimes runs a little thinner than the author would like, the book is commendably concise and accessible, filled with insight, and leavened with the occasional flash of dry wit The great virtue of the book is that, without taking sides among the combatants, Mr. Thuesen manages to capture the significance of their enterprise. It is nothing less than an unflinching commitment to living always mindful of the eye of eternity." --Wall Street Journal "Surprisingly, Thuesen makes the history of a doctrine-one riddled with arcane terminology and hair-splitting distinctions-not only accessible but also engaging. He has produced an intellectual history that puts ideas in their social context and takes seriously the lives of the men and women who thought about them." --Christianity Today "Peter Thuesen has written a careful and compelling historical account of the way in which predestination has vexed and engaged the church in the United States. . . . This book is a compelling reminder of where we have been, what is entrusted to us, and how much we have forgotten." --Walter Brueggemann, Christian Century "Theology still matters in American religious history, and I cannot think of a book that makes that case more effectively than Peter Thuesen's subtle, learned account of predestination's fate." --Thomas S. Kidd, Church History "Peter Thuesen's history of this most intractable of Christian doctrines manages-without ever taking its subject less than seriously-to be surprising, enlightening, and unexpectedly entertaining." --Arnold Hunt, Church Times "This is a very fine, useful, and readable book." --Choice "Predestination is a timely book in light of the current wave of debate over Calvinism in American Baptist and evangelical circles. The doctrine of predestination, to which virtually all conservative Christians subscribe in some form, has enjoyed recurring revivals often fraught with great controversy. Thuesen masterfully describes its "career" throughout especially American church history."--Religious Studies Review
Dewey Decimal
234/.9
Table Of Content
IllustrationsIntroduction: Doctrine of Discord: Presdestination in American ChristianityChapter One: The Predestinarian Labyrinth: Historical BackgroundChapter Two: The Agony and the Ecstacy: Predestination in New England PuritanismChapter Three: ''Shall the Hellish Doctrine Stand?'' Enlightenment Doubts and Evangelical DivisionChapter Four: From Methodists to Mormons: Attacking Predestination in the Young RepublicChapter Five: Domesticating a Doctrine: Catholics and LutheransChapter Six: Debating a Doctrine: Presbyterians and BaptistsEpilogue: The Purpose-Driven Life? Predestination and the Decline of MysteryGlossary of Theological TermsNotesIndex
Synopsis
Winner of the Christianity Today 2010 Book Award for History/Biography, and praised in Christian Century as "witty...erudite...masterful," this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, shows that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices--the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent of God's providential involvement in human affairs--and has fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries. Peter Thuesen reexamines not only familiar predestinarians such as the New England Puritans and many later Baptists and Presbyterians, but also non-Calvinists such as Catholics and Lutherans, and shows how even contemporary megachurches preach a "purpose-driven" outlook that owes much to the doctrine of predestination. For anyone wanting a fuller understanding of religion in America, Predestination offers both historical context on a doctrine that reaches back 1,600 years and a fresh perspective on today's denominational landscape., Predestination--the idea that God foreordains one's eternal destiny--is one of the most fascinating and controversial doctrines in Christianity. In this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, Peter Thuesen shows that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices--the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent of God's providential involvement in human affairs--and has fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries. Thuesen reexamines not only familiar predestinarians such as the New England Puritans and many later Baptists and Presbyterians, but also non-Calvinists such as Catholics and Lutherans, and shows how even contemporary megachurches preach a "purpose-driven" outlook that owes much to the doctrine of predestination. For anyone wanting a fuller understanding of religion in America, Predestination offers both historical context on a doctrine that reaches back 1,600 years and a fresh perspective on today's denominational landscape., Predestination - the idea that God foreordains one's eternal destiny - is one of the most fascinating and controversial doctrines in Christianity. In this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, Peter Thuesen shows that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices - the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent of God's providential involvement in human affairs - and has fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries.In Puritan New England, the "terrifying decree" of predestination drove some people to suicidal despair even while it convinced others that they were an elect remnant in a fallen world. The doctrine subsequently declined, ridiculed by deists like Thomas Jefferson and evangelicals like John Wesley. Yet to those on the margins, from Lutheran immigrants to "hard-shell" Baptists, it never lost its urgency as a burning theological issue. It provided the religious context of Abraham Lincoln's childhood, and precipitated a schism in the Lutheran church. By the early 21st century, with the rise of conservative Protestantism as a social and political force, the doctrine was spawning disputes online as evangelicals disagreed over what an "inerrant" Bible teaches on the subject. Although battles over predestination occurred throughout Christianity's long history, says Thuesen, only in the American free marketplace of competing Protestant sects could the doctrine persist in so many contexts as a catalyst of religious change.Thuesen reexamines not only familiar predestinarians like the New England Puritans and many later Baptists and Presbyterians, but also non-Calvinists, from Catholics and Lutherans to Methodists and Mormons, and shows how even contemporary megachurches preach a "purpose-driven" outlook that owes much to the doctrine of predestination. For anyone wanting a fuller understanding of religion in America, Predestination offers both historical context on a doctrine that reaches back 1,600 years and a fresh perspective on today's denominational landscape., Predestination--the idea that God foreordains one's eternal destiny--is one of the most fascinating and controversial doctrines in Christianity. In this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, Peter Thuesen shows that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices-the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence ofpurgatory and hell, the extent of God's providential involvement in human affairs and has fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries.
LC Classification Number
BT809.T48 2009
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