| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War. By E. Brooks Holifield. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. x, 617 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-09574-0.)

It is not often that one is asked to review a book to which the appellation "standard work in the field" can be given; this is such a book. E. Brooks Holifield provides his readers with a work unmatched in scope and depth. In an academic culture that is growing less literate about theology and thus less literate about early American culture, this book may well serve as a resource for more informed interpretations of the period. Though reflecting a deep and prolonged reading of American religious thought, the book remains surprisingly accessible. The writing is lucid and succinct; the argument is not lost to overly technical and abstract jargon. Thus it is a work that will be broadly useful to professional scholars and students and a learned popular audience alike.

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