Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather.
In America\'s God, Mark Noll has written a biography of this new Ameri.
In its place arose a singularly American set of beliefs.
Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away From the severe European traditions directly descended From the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential.
Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather