Did you know that alexander the great was a murderer and abraham lincoln was a christian? Answer by Moiraes FateSo? Answer by The FudgeMasteryep, sure did. Answer by dramporYes. Answer by MaggieYes, but what are you aiming at? America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln Paperback Oxford University Press Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs. In America’s God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new American ethos. In the 125 years preceding the…
