Head and heart
Subtitle: a history of Christianity in America
By: Garry Wills
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780143114079
Subjects: Church history
Other titles: History of Christianity in America
Description: The struggle within American Christianity now-as it has been throughout our nation's history-is between the head and the heart, reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelism. The same patterns recur: a cooling of popular religious fervor is followed by a grassroots explosion in evangelical activity. This landmark analysis concludes that religion is a fertile and enduring force in American politics and-while it is necessary to be vigilant against efforts to infuse government policy with Christianity-the tension between the two is necessary, inevitable, and unending. - back of book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pre-Enlightenment religion; title: Puritans; title: Mary Dyer must die; title: The Puritan psyche; title: The Puritan conscience; title: The Puritan intellect; title: Preludes to Enlightenment; title: Precursors : Samuel Sewall, Roger Williams; title: Spur to Enlightenment : the Great Awakening; title: Enlightened religion; title: Unitarians; title: Against the awakening; title: Quakers; title: Deists; title: Disestablishment; title: Beyond tolerance; title: Jefferson's statute; title: Madison's Remonstrance; title: First Amendment; title: Madisonian separation; title: The romantic era; title: Transcendentalism; title: Schism in New England; title: Emersonians; title: Religion of the heart; title: The second Great Awakening; title: Schisms over slavery; title: God of battles; title: Religion in the Gilded Age; title: Culture wars; title: Doomsday or progress?; title: Second-coming theology; title: Second-coming politics; title: The Social Gospel; title: Reversals; title: Evangelicals riding high; title: Evangelicals brought low; title: Religion in a radical time; title: Religious nation; title: Euphoria; title: Great religious truce; title: The rights revolution; title: Evangelicals counterattack; title: The Karl Rove era; title: Faith-based government; title: Ecumenical Karl; title: Life after Rove; title: Epilogue : Separation not suppression.