American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James

by Andrea Knutson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $145.51

  This study examines how the concept of conversion and specifically the legacy of the doctrine of preparation, as articulated in Puritan Reformed theology and transplanted to the Massachusetts Bay colony, remained a vital cultural force shaping developments in American literature, theology, and, ultimately, in philosophy in the form of pragmatism.