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The Divided Heart

Essays on Protestantism and the Enlightenment in America

By: Henry F. May

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Hardcover | 7 March 1991

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Bringing together essays by a leading intellectual and religious historian, The Divided Heart is a collection of recent reflections, sometimes with a considerable autobiographical element, by Henry F. May on the conflict between Protestantism and the Enlightenment that runs throughout the history of American culture. Summarizing May's opinions on recent historiographical arguments, the introduction to The Divided Heart tells of his own development as a historian, major influences upon his thinking, and how his practicing assumptions grew. Covering religion, there are essays on early American history, Jonathan Edwards, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Reinhold Niebuhr, and "reflections on the uneasy relation" between religion and American intellectual history. Relating to the Enlightenment, there are essays on the Constitution and the "Jeffersonian Moment." Suggesting a new and interdisciplinary approach, May's last essay deals with the end of the Enlightenment and the beginning of
Romanticism, an area of history with which he has never before dealt.

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"Few historians have written for as long or as well about the American mind of Henry May."--Church History

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Christian Churches, Denominations, Groups Protestantism & Protestant Churches History Regional & National History History of the Americas Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Society & Culture Cultural Studies

History of Ideas European History Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700 Fiction Romance

Introduction: Faith in History	p. 3
Allegiances
Religion and American Intellectual History, 1945-1985: Reflections on an Uneasy Relationship	p. 17
The Rough Road to Virgin Land	p. 33
The Prophet and the Establishment	p. 61
Edwards and After
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks: An Introduction	p. 75
Jonathan Edwards and America	p. 125
The Enlightenment and After
The Constitution and the Enlightened Consensus	p. 147
The Jeffersonian Moment	p. 161
After the Enlightenment: A Prospectus	p. 179
Notes	p. 197
Index	p. 215
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The Divided Heart

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