English Puritanism and Its Leaders
Author : John Tulloch
Publisher : Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691
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Author : John Tulloch
Publisher : Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691
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Author : John Brown
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Puritans
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Author : John TULLOCH (Principal of Saint Mary's College, Saint Andrews.)
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 1861
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Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2009-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199740879
Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the Puritan legacy in American history. Francis J. Bremer discusses the rise of Puritanism in the English Reformation, the struggle of the reformers to purge what they viewed as the corruptions of Roman Catholicism from the Elizabethan church, and the struggle with the Stuart monarchs that led to a brief Puritan triumph under Oliver Cromwell. It also examines the effort of Puritans who left England to establish a godly kingdom in America. Bremer examines puritan theology, views on family and community, their beliefs about the proper relationship between religion and public life, the limits of toleration, the balance between individual rights and one's obligation to others, and the extent to which public character should be shaped by private religious belief. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Author : Michael P. Winship
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 030012628X
On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking volume traces puritanism's tumultuous history from its initial attempts to reshape the Church of England to its establishment of godly republics in both England and America and its demise at the end of the seventeenth century. Shedding new light on puritans whose impact was far-reaching as well as on those who left only limited traces behind them, Michael Winship delineates puritanism's triumphs and tribulations and shows how the puritan project of creating reformed churches working closely with intolerant godly governments evolved and broke down over time in response to changing geographical, political, and religious exigencies.
Author : George Macaulay
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : John Coffey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1139827820
'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts.
Author : David D. Hall
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0679441174
Distinguished historian Hall presents a revelatory account of New England's Puritans that shows them to have been the most daring and successful reformers of the Anglo-colonial world.
Author : John G. Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0300252307
An ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims’ definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow. Drawing on original research using underutilized sources, John G. Turner moves beyond these familiar narratives in his sweeping and authoritative new history of Plymouth Colony. Instead of depicting the Pilgrims as otherworldly saints or extraordinary sinners, he tells how a variety of English settlers and Native peoples engaged in a contest for the meaning of American liberty.
Author : Thomas Edwards
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Page : 295 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1998
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