America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

Religious life in early America is often equated with fire-and-brimstone Puritanism, yet by the nineteenth century, Americans had moved away from the severe European traditions, of which Puritanism was the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs marked by heightened spiritual inwardness, a new confidence in individual reason, and an attentiveness to the economic and market realities of Western life. In America's God, Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.