America's God: from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

Introduction : theology and history

Theology in colonial America

The long life and final collapse of the Puritan canopy

Republicanism and religion : the American exception

Christian republicanism

Theistic common sense

Colonial theologies in the era of the Revolution

Innovative (but not "American") theologies in the era of the Revolution

The evangelical surge ...

... and constructing a new nation

Ideological permutations

Assumptions and assertions of American theology

The Americanization of Calvinism : contexts and questions

The Americanization of Calvinism : the congregational era, 1793-1827

The Americanization of Calvinism : explosion, 1827-1860

The Americanization of Methodism : the age of Asbury

The Americanization of Methodism : after Asbury

The "Bible alone" and a reformed, literal hermeneutic

The Bible and slavery

Failed alternatives

Climax and exhaustion in the Civil War

Conclusion : contexts and dogma.