The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell

by Robert Bruce Mullin

Book Overview

Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) is one of the most studied figures in nineteenth- century American religious history, but there have been no recent major biographies of him. Robert Bruce Mullin's Puritan as Yankee provides a much-needed look at this famous American Christian thinker.

Based on a close reading of Bushnell's writings and unpublished sources and giving careful attention to how Bushnell's contemporaries saw him, Mullin's book throws...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802842526
• ISBN13: 9780802842527
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.7"