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Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Peter J. Thuesen


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Winner of the Christianity Today 2010 Book Award for History/Biography, and praised in Christian Century as "witty...erudite...masterful," this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, shows that far from being only about the age-old riddle of divine sovereignty versus human free will, the debate over predestination is inseparable from other central Christian beliefs and practices--the efficacy of the sacraments, the existence of purgatory and hell, the extent of God's providential involvement in human affairs--and has fueled theological conflicts across denominations for centuries. Peter Thuesen reexamines not only familiar predestinarians such as the New England Puritans and many later Baptists and Presbyterians, but also non-Calvinists such as Catholics and Lutherans, and shows how even contemporary megachurches preach a "purpose-driven" outlook that owes much to the doctrine of predestination. For anyone wanting a fuller understanding of religion in America, Predestination offers both historical context on a doctrine that reaches back 1,600 years and a fresh perspective on today's denominational landscape.

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  • Title Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine
  • Author Peter J. Thuesen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-07-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195174274 / 0195174275
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Church history, Predestination - History of doctrines
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008049919
  • Dewey Decimal Code 234.9

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Citations

  • Books & Culture, 09/01/2009, Page 11
  • Choice, 12/01/2009, Page 0
  • Christian Century, 10/20/2009, Page 44
  • Christianity Today, 06/01/2009, Page 56

About the author

Peter J. Thuesen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is author of In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible and editor of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 26, Catalogues of Books.
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