abstract:New England theology designates a special school of theology which grew up among the Congregationalists of New England, originating in the year 1732, when Jonathan Edwards began his constructive theological work, culminating a little before the American Civil War, declining afterwards, and rapidly disappearing after the year 1880.
We have given thissummaryofPuritantheologynot onlybecause of itsinfluencein earlyNewEngland, butbecauseideaslikethis permeatedAmerica for more than a hundred years.