| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.3

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Leo P. Hirrel. Children of Wrath: New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1998. Pp. x, 248. $39.95.

Leo P. Hirrel here carefully and cautiously analyzes the public rhetoric and published writings of New School Presbyterians. His book owes its title to an 1828 address, delivered by New Haven theologian Nathaniel William Taylor to the Congregationalist clergy at Yale College, that was based on Paul's Letter to the Ephesians. Taylor used this Biblical text to emphasize man's innate moral depravity: the "sons of disobedience" who followed "the passions of our flesh" and "the desires of body and mind" were "by nature the children of wrath" (Ephesians 2: 2–3). Yet Taylor and his New School cohort also believed that the children of darkness might somehow, with the aid of God's saving grace, consciously reject sin and achieve salvation. These revisionist theologians perched themselves precariously on the precipice of traditional Calvinism, seeking to reconcile notions of original sin and total depravity with more modern and rationalist conceptions of free will and divine moral law. . . .

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