E Brooks Holifield
Biographic Data
| ID | 381513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Brooks Holifield |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Brooks |
| FAMILY NAME | Holifield |
| SIGNATURE | HOLIFIELD E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty
Lincoln A. Mullen. The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America
In The Chance of Salvation, Lincoln A. Mullen argues that the proliferation of religious denominations and traditions in the United States in the nineteenth century gradually created a common understanding of “religion as choice” rather than as inheritance (10). The assumption that people had to choose their religion—or irreligion—was the one feature shared by every religious group, and it formed a new kind of religious identity. Mullen explores …
One Family under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism
Journal Article One Family under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism Get access One Family under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism. By Anna M. Lawrence. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 282 pp. $42.50.) E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emeritus Emory UniversityAtlanta, Georgia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Let the Children Come: The Religion of the Protestant Child in Early America
In 1844, the Congregationalist minister Enoch Pond in Bangor, Maine, reminded his fellow clergy that they had been commissioned not only to feed the sheep of their flocks but also to nurture the lambs. Under no circumstances, he cautioned, would a good minister neglect the children, for both Christian parents and their pastors felt "the deepest anxiety" that the children of American parishes would not "receive that wise government, that faithful …
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
Journal Article Methodism: Empire of the Spirit Get access Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By Hempton David. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xvi, 278 pp. $30.00, isbn0-30010614-9.) E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory UniversityAtlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 4, March 2006, Pages 1420–1421, https://doi.org/10.2307/4485918 Pub…
Response to Critiques of Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War
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Republican Dialect or European Accents? The Sound of American Theology
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On Teaching the History of Christianity: Traditions and Presuppositions
In his presidential address to the American Society of Church History in 1920, Robert Hastings Nichols observed that he had discovered, in his reading of previous addresses, "no mention of the reading of a paper dealing with what is the occupation of almost half of our members, the teaching of Church History," or, as he preferred to call it, the teaching of "Christianity in History." He decided, therefore, to talk about pedagogy. He devoted most …
A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776
John K. Nelson deploys extensive and meticulous archival research to alter a host of current assumptions about religion in colonial Virginia. Instead of depicting early Virginians as religiously indifferent, Anglican clergy as mediocre, congregations as sparse and scattered, and worship as perfunctory, Nelson assembles both quantitative and manuscript evidence, along with a broad coverage of primary and secondary printed sources, to show that the…
Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America
Journal Article Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 269 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-19-510452-8.) Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 227–228, https://doi.org…
Theology as Entertainment: Oral Debate in American Religion
In a 1959 survey of 2,706 ministers of the Churches of Christ, an American denomination that grew out of the nineteenth-century reform movement of Alexander Campbell, the rhetorician James Swinney discovered 215 preachers who said that they had conducted public oral debates as a way of attracting converts and defending their tradition. During the previous half-century, they had held around 4,400 debates, each lasting from one to fourteen days, ma…
The Methodists
Journal Article The Methodists. By James E. Kirby, Russell E. Richey, and Kenneth E. Rowe. (Westport: Greenwood, 1996. xvi, 399 pp. $75.00, ISBN 0-313-22048-4.) Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Page 617, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952580 Published: 01 September…
Forum: The Place of Religion in Urban and Community Studies
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Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism
Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America
The Creationists
The Sermon Notebook of Samuel Parris, 1689-1694
This is the sermon notebook of the pastor of the local church in Salem at the time of the notorious witchcraft hysteria of 1692-93. These sermons were preached from his ordination in 1689, through the summer of trials and executions in 1692, and on into the aftermath of the controversy
Peace, Conflict, and Ritual in Puritan Congregations
Pour la societe coloniale des XVII e et XVIII e siecles, les rites pratiques par les congregations puritaines de Nouvelle Angleterre apparaissent ambigus : d'un cote, les rites de paix et d'harmonie rassemblent la population dans une communaute unie et donnent une expression dramatique aux abstractions doctrinales et ethiques ; de l'autre, par les differentes interpretations qu'ils suscitent, ils divisent la societe en factions et generent de vio…
Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America
Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521-1680
Journal Article Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521–1680. By E. Brooks Holifield. (Boston: Twayne, 1989. xvi + 200 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8057-9050-1. Paper, $10.95, ISBN 0-8057-9055-1.) Get access Avihu Zakai Avihu Zakai Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Page 1132, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080…
Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521-1680. Twayne's American Thought and Culture Series
America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards . Robert W. Jenson
The Democratization of American Christianity
Journal Article The Democratization of American Christianity. By Nathan O. Hatch. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xiv + 312 pp. $25.00.) Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 633, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079202 Published: 01 September 1990
The Penurious Preacher: Nineteenth-Century Clerical Wealth: North and South
The Penurious Preacher?: Nineteenth-Century Clerical Wealth: North and South Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield is Professor of History at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, Spring 1990, Pages 17–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVI…
Puritan Crisis: New England and the English Civil Wars, 1630-1670
Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
Journal Article Methodism: Empire of the Spirit Get access Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. By Hempton David. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xvi, 278 pp. $30.00, isbn0-30010614-9.) E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory UniversityAtlanta, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 4, March 2006, Pages 1420–1421, https://doi.org/10.2307/4485918 Pub…
The Sermon Notebook of Samuel Parris, 1689-1694
This is the sermon notebook of the pastor of the local church in Salem at the time of the notorious witchcraft hysteria of 1692-93. These sermons were preached from his ordination in 1689, through the summer of trials and executions in 1692, and on into the aftermath of the controversy
Peace, Conflict, and Ritual in Puritan Congregations
Pour la societe coloniale des XVII e et XVIII e siecles, les rites pratiques par les congregations puritaines de Nouvelle Angleterre apparaissent ambigus : d'un cote, les rites de paix et d'harmonie rassemblent la population dans une communaute unie et donnent une expression dramatique aux abstractions doctrinales et ethiques ; de l'autre, par les differentes interpretations qu'ils suscitent, ils divisent la societe en factions et generent de vio…
On Toleration in Massachusetts
On a December day in 1676, Thomas Shepard, minister of the Church of Christ in Charlestown, passionately "discoursed of Reformation," bemoaning the inability of the ministers and magistrates to unite against the disorderly mob of Quakers and Anabaptists. If the Quakers were suppressed, he argued, maybe the recalcitrant magistrates would "see reason to handle" the troublesome Anabaptists. His sympathic audience, Mr. Rowlandson, the Lancaster minis…
Theology as Entertainment: Oral Debate in American Religion
In a 1959 survey of 2,706 ministers of the Churches of Christ, an American denomination that grew out of the nineteenth-century reform movement of Alexander Campbell, the rhetorician James Swinney discovered 215 preachers who said that they had conducted public oral debates as a way of attracting converts and defending their tradition. During the previous half-century, they had held around 4,400 debates, each lasting from one to fourteen days, ma…
Forum: The Place of Religion in Urban and Community Studies
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The Penurious Preacher: Nineteenth-Century Clerical Wealth: North and South
The Penurious Preacher?: Nineteenth-Century Clerical Wealth: North and South Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield is Professor of History at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, Spring 1990, Pages 17–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVI…
Puritan Gravestone Art: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1976
Journal Article Puritan Gravestone Art. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1976. Ed. by Peter Benes. (Dublin, N.H.: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife/Boston University, 1977. 142 pp. Illustrations, charts, and bibliography. Paper, $5.95.) Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
On Toleration in Massachusetts
On a December day in 1676, Thomas Shepard, minister of the Church of Christ in Charlestown, passionately "discoursed of Reformation," bemoaning the inability of the ministers and magistrates to unite against the disorderly mob of Quakers and Anabaptists. If the Quakers were suppressed, he argued, maybe the recalcitrant magistrates would "see reason to handle" the troublesome Anabaptists. His sympathic audience, Mr. Rowlandson, the Lancaster minis…
The Intellectual Sources of Stoddardeanism
IN 1677, Solomon Stoddard of Northampton initiated a bitter and divisive sacramental controversy when he insisted that New England churches possessed neither the authority nor the ability to restrict the Lord's Supper to candidates who had experienced the saving grace of conversion. Dismissing a tradition of sacramental regulation that had survived in most of the churches for four decades, he urged that every moral, orthodox adult Christian be ad…
The Renaissance of Sacramental Piety in Colonial New England
J N i690 Cotton Mather, disturbed by the Paucity of sacramental manuals in New England, published A Companion for Communicants, a series of discourses on the nature and purpose of the Lord's Supper, along with instructions on preparing for Holy Ordinance.' The publication was a notable event, for it marked the first time that any sacramental meditation was ever printed on New England presses, which had been pouring forth religious treatises conti…
Samuel Willard, 1640-1707: Preacher of Orthodoxy in an Era of Change
Puritan Studies and Intellectual History
The Covenant Sealed: The Development of Puritan Sacramental Theology in Old and New England, 1570-1720
Journal Article The Covenant Sealed: The Development of Puritan Sacramental Theology in Old and New England, 1570–1720. By E. Brooks Holifield. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. xi + 248 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $12.50.) Get access Edwin S. Gaustad Edwin S. Gaustad University of California, Riverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62…
The Covenant Sealed: The Development of Puritan Sacramental Theology in Old and New England, 1570-1720
Reading the Signs of the Times
The Hero and the Minister in American Culture
“America within the past hundred years has produced a panoply of images of ministry, which have remarkably paralleled the changing image of the hero in secular journals and magazines ... When images of the minister become an issue, either for the pastor or the congregation, there is a dual temptation. Some struggle to escape the old images ... But there is also another temptation. Many ministers are tempted to barricade themselves within inherite…
Thomas Hooker: Writings in England and Holland, 1626-1633
The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795-1860
Slaves and Gentlemen: Religion in the Antebellum South
Ethical Assumptions of Clinical Pastoral Education
“The founders of clinical pastoral education were moral reformers at heart; they wanted to reshape ethical sensibility and to reform professional leadership within and sometimes without the churches. That moral purpose has endured. But they did not always share the same moral vision. Their programs and practices reflected two conflicting kinds of ethical sensibility, and two differing judgments about what was ethically important in human nature.”
The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795-1860
The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795-1860
Journal Article The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795–1860. By E. Brooks Holifield. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1978. x + 262 pp. Notes and indexes. $14.75.) Get access Anne C. Loveland Anne C. Loveland Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Page 404, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900933 Pub…
Puritan Gravestone Art: The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1976
Journal Article Puritan Gravestone Art. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1976. Ed. by Peter Benes. (Dublin, N.H.: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife/Boston University, 1977. 142 pp. Illustrations, charts, and bibliography. Paper, $5.95.) Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …
The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture, 1795-1860
Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada. Vol. I: Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Eastern Orthodox
Journal Article Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada. Vol. I: Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Eastern Orthodox. By Arthur Carl Piepkorn. (New York: Harper & Row, 1977. xix + 324 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $15.95.) Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada. Vol. II: Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory University Search for other works by this author on…
Rappaccini's Children: American Writers in a Calvinist World
The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England
Journal Article The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England. By Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xvi + 298 pp. Illustrations, notes, and indexes. $28.00.) Get access E. Brooks Holifield E. Brooks Holifield Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 2, September …
Religion and Order in England and America
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Biographies and Biopsies
The Art of Prophesying: New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief
On Saying too Little and Saying too Much
“To conceive of God as simply infinite mystery, as the Void beyond our conceiving, was to lapse into silence. It was to say too little. To conceive of God as simply presence, as mercy, as friend, as ally, was to risk a ... reduction of the mystery to the level of easy familiarity. It was to say more than should be said.”
Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521-1680. Twayne's American Thought and Culture Series
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