Giussani’s book contains judgments about American Protestantism that are still valid today, more than thirty years after the first edition was written. An “informational” book, it starts from the Puritan origins and goes up to the 1960s
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Present at the Creation - Jonathan Edwards, the first American by Gerald McDermott
Calvin (as well as Kuyper & Edwards) drew two important political implications from the doctrine of total depravity, namely, that humans need restraint in order to survive and they need guidance in order to flourish...
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The Thinker of Puritan New England
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Reinhold Niebuhr and the political realism of Saint Augustine
Luigi Giussani wrote in American Protestant Theology: "In Niebuhr the main accents of American Protestant theological discourse emerge in a very novel and balanced synthesis. Significantly he is the demystifier of the idea of America as the place making manifest the Kingdom of God, which in various inflexions and various tones had conditioned the spirit of all American history"
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