Benevolent Calvinism and the Moral Government of God
The Influence of Nathaniel W. Taylor on Revivalism in the Second Great Awakening
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5100328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William R Sutton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-47 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rac.1992.2.1.03a00020 |
| OpenAlex | W4256386476 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
In the early nineteenth century, when theological disputes centered on suggestions of a kinder, gentler God, Yale's Nathaniel William Taylor brought to fruition America's "one great contribution to the theological thinking of Christendom," the New Haven theology. Taylor's theology combined elements of Calvinist and Newtonian worldviews and centered on three critical assumptions: the benevolence of God, his moral government, and human free agency. Thus, Taylor held that God was both a wise and powerful creator and a good and just ruler, whose concern for and involvement with his creation extended into contemporary human affairs. Moreover, he believed that men and women were moral agents whose sinfulness was worthy of divine condemnation as well as empirically inevitable, but that human sin was in no way preordained or necessary to the prevailing System of moral government
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |