| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell. By Robert Bruce Mullin. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. xvi, 296 pp. Paper, $21.00, ISBN 0-8028-4252-6.)

Few individuals in American religious and intellectual history are more fascinating than Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), the Congregational preacher, theologian, and general observer of nature and society. The Hartford minister was hyperactive, both mentally and physically, and his writings present a veritable panorama of nineteenth-century America. Early on, critics speculated about what Bushnell "was" or what he "meant," and ever since there has been no shortage of interpretations. He has been seen as both theologically liberal and Calvinistic, comprehensive, organic, romantic, and mystical. Some have focused on Bushnell's language theory or on his "genteel" social orientation. A few scholars have cast a wider net, with varying degrees of success.

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