Dr. E. Brooks Holifield, C.H. Candler Professor of American Church History
Professor Holifield has written books on seventeenth-century Puritanism, the antebellum South, religion and psychology in America, health and medicine in the Methodist traditions, and the cultural history of early colonial America.
Contact
Dr. E. Brooks Holifield
Bishops Hall
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
Phone: 404.727.6319
Fax: 404.727.2494
Email: eholifi@emory.edu
Education
- LittD, Hendrix College, 1985
- PhD, Yale University, 1970
- BD, Yale University, 1966
- BA, Hendrix College, 1963
Publications
- God's Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2007)
- Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War (Yale University Press 2003)
- Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521-1680 (Twayne Publishers 1989)
- Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition (Crossroad Publishing Company 1986)
- A History of Pastoral Care in America (Wipf & Stock Publishers 1983)
- The Gentlemen Theologians (Duke University Press 1978)
- The Covenant Sealed (Wipf & Stock Publishers 1974)