User:Hydrangeans/draft of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

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Publication
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Content
America's God charts a history of Protestant evangelical theology in the United States from 1720 to 1865, focusing primarily on theology during the American Revolution and afterward.

Genre
Noll introduces the work as a "contextual history of Christian theology". Daniel Walker Howe described it as intellectual history, and historian Margaret Bendroth called it "unapologetically […] intellectual history, albeit carefully contextualized with other narratives of economic, political, and social change". Religious studies scholar Ann Taves considered it "the first extended effort to write a contextual or social history of American Protestant theology through the Civil War". According to Publishers Weekly, America's God 's differs from "old-fashioned intellectual history" by grounding the history in social contexts that "shaped, and were shaped by, theology". Quoting the book, reviewer Trisha Posey called it a "social history of ideas".

Reception
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Historian Nathan O. Hatch called America's God Noll's "magnum opus" and a "magisterial synthesis" of "a lifetime of immersion" in primary sources and secondary sources.

Honors
America's God received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The Historical Society awarded it the 2004 Eugene D. Genovese Best Book in American History Prize.