Nathaniel William Taylor and Thomas Reid: Scottish common-sense philosophy's impact upon the formation of New Haven theology in antebellum America
DeLashmutt, Michael
Date: 1 February 2005
Journal
Scottish Journal of Theology
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Abstract
This paper will examine the relationship between Scottish common-sense philosophy and the formation of New Haven Theology. It will be illustrated that Nathaniel William Taylor’s adaptations of orthodox Calvinism (particularly the doctrines of election and predestination and total depravity) relied heavily upon the principles of ...
This paper will examine the relationship between Scottish common-sense philosophy and the formation of New Haven Theology. It will be illustrated that Nathaniel William Taylor’s adaptations of orthodox Calvinism (particularly the doctrines of election and predestination and total depravity) relied heavily upon the principles of common-sense philosophy found in the work of Thomas
Reid. Furthermore, it will be argued that Taylor’s adaptation of Calvinism
was a necessary accommodation to the phenomenon of mass conversion and
evangelism during the Second Great Awakening.
Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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