American Aristocrats(1st Edition) A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism by HarryS. Stout Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2017 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-09898-9, ISBN: 0-465-09898-3
"The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalismAmerican Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America. Beginning in 1773 with the family patriarch, a twice-wounded Revolutionary War hero, the Andersons amassed land throughout what was then the American west. As ..."
Upon the Altar of the Nation(Reprint) A Moral History of the Civil War by HarryS. Stout Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303876-4, ISBN: 0-14-303876-1
"A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout measures the gap between those claims and the war’s actual conduct. Ranging from the home front to the trenches and drawing on a wealth of contemp ..."
The New England Soul(2nd Edition) Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England by HarryS. Stout, Mark A. Noll Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-989097-2, ISBN: 0-19-989097-8
""Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book." - Journal of American History "Simply breathtaking in scope. No one else has dared to grapple with the full sweep of Puritan preaching form the founding of New England through the American Revolution." - Nathan O. Hatch, University o ..."
"Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely acknowledged as one of the most brilliant religious thinkers and multifaceted figures in American history. A fountainhead of modern evangelicalism, Edwards wore many hats during his lifetime—theologian, philosopher, pastor and town leader, preacher, missionary, college president, family man, among others. With nearly four hundred entries, this encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging perspective on Edw ..."
"The eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized both where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come.The essays are organized according to four general themes: places and regions, universal themes, tr ..."
The Divine Dramatist George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (Library of Religious Biography (LRB)) by HarryS. Stout, Nathan O. Hatch, Mark A. Noll Paperback, 325 Pages, Published 1991 by Eerdmans ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-0154-8, ISBN: 0-8028-0154-4
"Commonly acknowledged as Anglo-America's most popular eighteenth-century preacher, George Whitefield commanded mass audiences across two continents through his personal charisma. Harry Stout draws on a number of sources, including the newspapers of Whitefield's day, to outline his subject's spectacular career as a public figure. Although Whitefield here emerges as very much a modern figures, given to shameless self-promotion and extrava ..."
The New England Soul(Reprint) Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England by HarryS. Stout Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1988 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505645-7, ISBN: 0-19-505645-0
"The New England Soul is the first comprehensive analysis of preaching in New England from the founding of the Puritan colonies to the outbreak of the Revolution. Using a multi-disciplinary approach--including analysis of rhetorical style and concept of identity and community--Stout examines more than two thousand sermons spanning five generations of ministers, including such giants of the pulpit as John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Increase ..."
"At the end of the twentieth century, religion seems to be ubiquitous in America. Its existence and influence are especially apparent in our politics, but its presence is most deeply felt in our personal lives and experience. Was it always this way? Offering a rich selection of classic and recent scholarship, Religion in American History: A Reader presents an extraordinary portrait of religion's fate across four centuries of the Americ ..."
The New England Soul(1st Edition) Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England by HarryS. Stout Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 1986 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-503958-0, ISBN: 0-19-503958-0
"Throughout the colonial era, New England's only real public spokesmen were the Congregational ministers. One result is that the ideological origins of the American Revolution are nowhere more clearly seen than in the sermons they preached. The New England Soul is the first comprehensive analysis of preaching in New England from the founding of the Puritan colonies to the outbreak of the Revolution. Using a multi-disciplinary approach-- ..."
"Universally recognized as a seminal figure in American intellectual history, Jonathan Edwards has been the focus of considerable scholarly attention in a variety of academic disciplines, including religion, history, literature, and philosophy. Because these disciplines discuss him in relation to different intellectual traditions, Edwards scholarship remains segmented. This volume represents the first attempt to provide a synthetic vis ..."
An Enemy Among Them (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books) by Deborah H. Deford, HarryS. Stout Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1994 by Hmh Books For Young Readers ISBN-13: 978-0-395-70108-9, ISBN: 0-395-70108-2
"Margaret must test her loyalty and courage when a wounded prisoner of war is brought into her Pennsylvania home in this novel of the Revolutionary era. "This story is fast-paced and written with careful attention to details." -- Voice of Youth Advocates"
Upon the Altar of the Nation(1st Edition) A Moral History of the Civil War by HarryS. Stout Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2006 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-03470-3, ISBN: 0-670-03470-3
" A timely reconsideration of "just war," this landmark history closely examines the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States When the nation tore itself apart during the Civil War, the North and the South marched under the banner of God. Yet the true moral aspects of this war have received little notice from historians of the period. In this gripping volume, Yale religious historian Harry S. Stout demonstrates how both gro ..."
"The year 2003 marked the tercentenary of the birth of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), the man perpetually hailed as "America's most original religious thinker." Edwards's impact, both on colonial religious life and on the Anglo-American world of his day, was internationally acknowledged, and his legacy for the century and a half and more after his death in 1758 has been profound. Even to this day, Edwards's life is studied and his writing ..."
"Prepared by editors of the distinguished series The Works of Jonathan Edwards, this authoritative anthology includes selected treatises, sermons, and autobiographical material by early America’s greatest theologian and philosopher. "Jonathan Edwards remains unequaled among North American theologians. These selections exemplify his special traits: eloquence, knowledge of the human heart, and metaphysical passion for complex beauty in nat ..."
"The sermons and discourses in this volume chart the rise and decline of the Great Awakening in Jonathan Edwards’s parish in Northampton, Massachusetts, and beyond. A leading figure of the revival period, Edwards delivered potent and wide-ranging sermons during the years 173942. In this volume the transcript of the original manuscript of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is reproduced for the first time, along with the text of its fi ..."
"This single volume does what most libraries cannot--placing at your fingertips the whole spectrum of individuals, traditions, institututions, denominations, events, and ideas that have influenced North American religion and culture."