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" A loss of will: "Arminianism," nonsectarianism, and the erosion of American psychology's moral project, 1636--1890 "
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565560
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Kosits, Russell D
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A loss of will: "Arminianism," nonsectarianism, and the erosion of American psychology's moral project, 1636--1890 [Thesis]
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University of New Hampshire, 2004
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eng
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Ph.D.
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, University of New Hampshire
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The concept of "the will" dominated American moral psychology for nearly three centuries. To possess a will was, among other things, to be made in the image of God and to have moral responsibility. College textbooks, as tools of moral inculcation, conveyed this moral psychology from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. A significant shift occurred in college psychology textbooks during the 1930s: the topic of will was being removed as a chapter heading--never to return. By the end of the decade, American psychology had lost its will..
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American history, Theology, Science history
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Latin Dissertation
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