Cotton Mather
Author : Louise Schultz Boas
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Puritans
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Author : Louise Schultz Boas
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Puritans
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Author : Ralph Philip Boas
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Ralph Philip Boas
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Louise Schutz Boas
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
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Author : Ralph Philip Boas
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Puritans
ISBN : 9780781262651
Bonded Leather binding
Author : Richard F. Lovelace
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1556353928
Cotton Mather is probably best known for his contributions to the Puritanism of colonial America. Yet the subject of this book is Mather's theology of Christian experience, usually associated with continental Pietism, a dynamic movement of reform and renewal in the Lutheran church. Richard Lovelace summarizes the basic thrust of Mather's treatment of spiritual rebirth, sanctification, pastoral and social ministry, the need for spiritual awakening, and the effects he believed this awakening should produce in Christianity and the mission of the church. In Mather, the two great strains of American Evangelical Protestantism--Puritanism and Pietism--were combined, influencing Jonathan Edwards and American religion in general throughout the Great Awakening and subsequent revivals. Thus, the book is unique in tracing the roots of modern Evangelicalism beyond nineteenth-century Arminianism to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century blend of Puritant-Pietist thought.
Author : Ralph Boas
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Perry Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1956
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780231054195
Selections from the writings of Puritans in New England in the first century of colonial life.
Author : Ibram X. Kendi
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1568584644
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
Author : Mark A. Peterson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804729123
Beginning with the first colonists and continuing down to the present, the dominant narrative of New England Puritanism has maintained that piety and prosperity were enemies, that the rise of commerce delivered a mortal blow to the fervor of the founders, and that later generations of Puritans fell away from their religious heritage as they moved out across the New England landscape. This book offers a new alternative to the prevailing narrative, which has been frequently criticized but heretofore never adequately replaced. The authors argument follows two main strands. First, he shows that commercial development, rather than being detrimental to religion, was necessary to sustain Puritan religious culture. It was costly to establish and maintain a vital Puritan church, for the needs were many, including educated ministers who commanded substantial salaries; public education so that the laity could be immersed in the Bible and devotional literature (substantial expenses in themselves); the building of meeting houses; and the furnishing of communion tables--all and more were required for the maintenance of Puritan piety. Second, the author analyzes how the Puritans gradually developed the evangelical impulse to broadcast the seeds of grace as widely as possible. The spread of Puritan churches throughout most of New England was fostered by the steady devotion of material resources to the maintenance of an intense and demanding religion, a devotion made possible by the belief that money sown to the spirit would reap divine rewards. In 1651, about 20,000 English colonists were settled in some 30 New England towns, each with a newly formed Puritan church. A century later, the population had grown to 350,000, and there were 500 meetinghouses for Puritan churches. This book tells the story of this remarkable century of growth and adaptation through intertwined histories of two Massachusetts churches, one in Boston and one in Westfield, a village on the remote western frontier, from their foundings in the 1660s to the religious revivals of the 1740s. In conclusion, the author argues that the Great Awakening was a product of the continuous cultivation of traditional religion, a cultural achievement built on New Englands economic development, rather than an indictment and rejection of its Puritan heritage.