New England theology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the Calvinistic theological movement prominent in American Congregational churches in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Theodore Thornton Munger papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 362
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, speeches, sermons, and other papers of Theodore Thornton Munger, author, preacher, and spokesman for liberal theology. Also included are papers relating to the Munger and Selden families. Of special interest are the papers throughout the collection which reflect on the many religious controversies in New England between 1870 and 1900 in which Munger became embroiled, particularly Congregational polity. Important correspondents include Elisha Mulford, Francis...
Dates:
1806-1947
Roger Sherman (1721-1793) collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 447
Abstract:
Correspondence, reports, legal records, financial documents and genealogical material of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Included are both family letters and political correspondence. Of special interest are the letters to Governor Jonathan Trumbull on the relationship of Connecticut to the prosecution of the war (1777-1780). Among Sherman's writings are a report from the Constitutional Convention (1787), a note on the proposal for a national bank (1791) and a...
Dates:
1749-1904