Authors: Henry F. May
ISBN-13: 9780195058994, ISBN-10: 0195058992
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: March 1991
Edition: (Non-applicable)
University of California, Berkeley (Emeritus)
Bringing together essays by a leading intellectual and religious historian, The Divided Heart is a collection of recent reflections, sometimes with a considerable autobiographical element, by Henry F. May on the conflict between Protestantism and the Enlightenment that runs throughout the history of American culture. Summarizing May's opinions on recent historiographical arguments, the introduction to The Divided Heart tells of his own development as a historian, major influences upon his thinking, and how his practicing assumptions grew. Covering religion, there are essays on early American history, Jonathan Edwards, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Reinhold Niebuhr, and "reflections on the uneasy relation" between religion and American intellectual history. Relating to the Enlightenment, there are essays on the Constitution and the "Jeffersonian Moment." Suggesting a new and interdisciplinary approach, May's last essay deals with the end of the Enlightenment and the beginning of Romanticism, an area of history with which he has never before dealt.
Introduction: Faith in History | 3 | |
I | Allegiances | |
1. | Religion and American Intellectual History, 1945-1985: Reflections on an Uneasy Relationship | 17 |
2. | The Rough Road to Virgin Land | 33 |
3. | The Prophet and the Establishment | 61 |
II | Edwards and After | |
4. | Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks: An Introduction | 75 |
5. | Jonathan Edwards and America | 125 |
III | The Enlightenment and After | |
6. | The Constitution and the Enlightened Consensus | 147 |
7. | The Jeffersonian Moment | 161 |
8. | After the Enlightenment: A Prospectus | 179 |
Notes | 197 | |
Index | 215 |