Dr.
E. Brooks Holifield
Emory University
Religious scholar; Theologian; Historian (religion); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Religious Studies
Elected
2011
Scholar of American religious history who explored religion and medicine, theology and intellectual history, the Puritans, early colonial thought, and the institutional life of the clergy. His landmark work, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (2003), a standard reference for historians of religion, explains the centrality of theology to American cultural developments in colonial and early national periods. Authored The Covenant Sealed: The Development of Puritan Sacramental Theology in Old and New England, 1570-1720 (1974), The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology and Southern Culture, 1795-1860 (1978), A History of Pastoral Care in America: From Salvation to Self-Realization, 1570-1970 (1983), Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition (1986), Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture 1521-1680 (1989) and God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America (2007).
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