Background
Guelzo, Allen Carl was born on February 2, 1953 in Yokohama, Japan. Son of CArl Martin and Leila Jeanette (Kerrigan) Guelzo.
(Jonathan Edwards towered over his contemporaries-a man ov...)
Jonathan Edwards towered over his contemporaries-a man over six feet tall and a figure of theological stature-but the reasons for his power have been a matter of dispute. Edwards on the Will offers a persuasive explanation. In 1753, after seven years of personal trials, which included dismissal from his Northampton church, Edwards submitted a treatise, Freedom of the Will, to Boston publishers. Its impact on Puritan society was profound. He had refused to be trapped either by a new Arminian scheme that seemed to make God impotent or by a Hobbesian natural determinism that made morality an illusion. He both reasserted the primacy of God's will and sought to reconcile freedom with necessity. In the process he shifted the focus from the community of duty to the freedom of the individual. Edwards died of smallpox in 1758 soon after becoming president of Princeton; as one obituary said, he was "a most rational . . . and exemplary Christian" Thereafter, for a century or more, all discussion of free will and on the church as an enclave of the pure in an impure society had to begin with Edwards. His disciples, the "New Divinity" men-principally Samuel Hopkins of Great Barrington and Joseph Bellamy of Bethlehem, Connecticut-set out to defend his thought. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, tried to keep his influence off the Yale Corporation, but Edwards's ideas spread beyond New Haven and sparked the religious revivals of the next decades. In the end, old Calvinism returned to Yale in the form of Nathaniel William Taylor, the Boston Unitarians captured Harvard, and Edwards's troublesome ghost was laid to rest. The debate on human freedom versus necessity continued, but theologians no longer controlled it. In Edwards on the Will, Guelzo presents with clarity and force the story of these fascinating maneuverings for the soul of New England and of the emerging nation.
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(An enlightening "intellectual biography" of Lincoln, Alle...)
An enlightening "intellectual biography" of Lincoln, Allen Guelzo's peerless account of America's most celebrated president explores the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him as a serious thinker deeply involved in the nineteenth-century debates over politics, religion, and culture. Written with passion and dramatic impact, Guelzo's masterful study offers a revealing new perspective on a man whose life was in many ways a paradox. Since its original publication in 1999, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President has garnered numerous accolades, not least the prestigious 2000 Lincoln Prize. As journalist Richard N. Ostling has noted, "Much has been written about Lincoln's belief and disbelief," but Guelzo's extraordinary account "goes deeper."
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(This six CD set includes twelve, 30 minute lectures given...)
This six CD set includes twelve, 30 minute lectures given by Professor Allen C. Guelzo, Director of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College. The topics covered include: Young Man Lincoln; Whig Meteor; Lincoln, Law, and Politics; The Mind of Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln and Slavery; The Great Debates; Lincoln and Liberty, Too; The Uncertain President; The Emancipation Moment; Lincoln's Triumph; The President's Sword; and The Dream of Lincoln. Sixty-three page course guidebook is included.
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( American Episcopalians have long prided themselves on t...)
American Episcopalians have long prided themselves on their love of consensus and their position as the church of American elites. They have, in the process, often forgotten that during the nineteenth century their church was racked by a divisive struggle that threatened to tear apart the very fabric of the Episcopal Church. On one side of this struggle was a powerful and aggressive Evangelical party who hoped to make the Episcopal Church into the democratic head of "the sisterhood of Evangelical Churches" in America; on the other side was the Oxford Movement, equally powerful and aggressive but committed to a range of Romantic principles which celebrated disillusion and disgust with evangelicalism and democracy alike. The resulting conflict—over theology, liturgy, and, above all, culture—led to the schism of 1873, in which many Evangelicals left the church to form the Reformed Episcopal Church. For the Union of Evangelical Christendom tells this largely forgotten story using the case of the Reformed Episcopalians to open up the ironic anatomy of American religion at the turn of the century. Today, as the Episcopal Church once again finds itself enmeshed in cultural and religious crisis, the remembrance of a similar crisis a century ago brings an eerily prophetic ring to this remarkable work of cultural and religious history.
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Guelzo, Allen Carl was born on February 2, 1953 in Yokohama, Japan. Son of CArl Martin and Leila Jeanette (Kerrigan) Guelzo.
Master of Divinity, Philadelphia Theological Seminary, 1978. Master of Arts in History, University Pennsylvania, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Pennsylvania, 1986.
Doctor of Philosophy in History (honorary), Lincoln College.
Dean Templeton Honors College Eastern College, St. David's, Pennsylvania, Grace F. Kea professor American History, 1991—2004. Professor history Gettysburg College, since 2004, Henry R. Luce professor Civil War Era, since 2004. Member National Council on the Humanities, Washington, since 2006.
(An enlightening "intellectual biography" of Lincoln, Alle...)
(Jonathan Edwards towered over his contemporaries-a man ov...)
( American Episcopalians have long prided themselves on t...)
(This six CD set includes twelve, 30 minute lectures given...)
Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, American Society 18th Century Studies, American Society Church History (Albert C. Outler prize in Ecumenical church history 1993), Society Civil War Historians, Union League of Philadelphia. Board governors The Lincoln Institute, since 1998, The Civil War Library & Museum, 1999-2000, Abraham Lincoln Association, since 2000, The Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, 2000-2004, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Married Debra Kay Hotchkiss, June 27, 1981. Children: Jerusha, Alexandra, Jonathan.