Beschrijving

Beginning with a brief look at what the European colonists were able to make of indigenous beliefs and practices, and ending in 1730, Religion and Its Reformation in America seeks to highlight the distinguishing features of Christianity in the first century of its life in the colonies that would became the United States.

Beginning with a brief look at what the European colonists were able to make of indigenous beliefs and practices, and ending in 1730 – the year before the first published work of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards – Religion and Its Reformation in America seeks to highlight the distinguishing features of Christianity in the first century of its life in the colonies that would became the United States.

The transplanted Church of England in Virginia, the Catholicism of Maryland, and, later on, the Quaker experience of Pennsylvania are well represented, but the heaviest emphasis falls on the \