The Puritan in the Enlightenment: Franklin and Edwards
Author : David Levin
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN :
Author : David Levin
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN :
Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520038639
Author : Michael Paul Winship
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Observing that intellectual changes within late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts Puritan culture closely paralleled changes within Puritan culture in England, Michael Winship re-examines one of the more nettlesome issues in the intellectual history of early New England. How did the logic of Puritanism square itself with the contrary assumptions of the early Enlightenment? Finding themselves in an intellectual world largely hostile to Puritanism, how did Puritans try to maintain credibility?
Author : Cushing Strout
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 1968
Category : United States
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Author : Zachary James Haberler
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 19,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Clergy
ISBN :
"How the strict and Godly Puritan religion coexisted with secular thought in 18th century Massachusetts is the central problem this paper addresses. To make sense of this unexpected collision requires an examination of two facets of life in Massachusetts: the colony's ministers and the colony's system for educating them. An evaluation of these two facets reveals significant interplay between Puritanism and Enlightenment thought in 18th century Massachusetts. Furthermore, this interplay indicates that the Enlightenment had a role in Massachusetts beyond and quite different from simply supplying the influx of political thought which infiltrated all of the American colonies and contributed to the colonists' revolutionary movement all of the American colonies and contributed to the colonists' revolutionary movement for independence. Indeed, Puritan values and the Enlightenment not only coexisted but often converged, creating a minister's Enlightenment in 18th century Massachusetts" - Abstract.
Author : Wallace Williams Marshall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 153260274X
The prevailing consensus among historians is that natural theology within Protestantism was born in the eighteenth century as a byproduct of the Enlightenment and had a sharply diminished if not nonexistent role within Puritanism. Based on an exhaustive study of the writings of some sixty English and American Puritans spanning from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, this book demonstrates that the overwhelming majority of Puritan theologians not only embraced natural theology on a theoretical level but employed it in a surprising variety of pastoral, apologetic, and evangelical contexts, including their missionary activities to the Indians of New England. Some Puritans even asserted that people who had never heard about Christianity could be saved through the knowledge afforded them by natural theology. This conclusion reshapes our understanding of the history of apologetics and sheds fresh light on the origins of the Enlightenment itself. Puritanism and Natural Theology also examines the crises of doubt experienced by several prominent Puritan theologians, advances our understanding of the oft-debated issue of the role of reason within Puritanism, and sets the Puritans' enthusiasm for natural science within the broader context of their beliefs about natural theology.
Author : George Lachmann Mosse
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Enlightenment
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Author : Ralph Barton Perry
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Christianity and culture
ISBN :
The two ideals which the author believes have contributed most to America's heritage.
Author : Abram Van Engen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199379645
Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears; the standard history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment, not Puritan New England. Abram C. Van Engen has unearthed pervasive evidence of sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts, poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives. He demonstrates how two types of sympathy -- the active command to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that could indicate salvation (a discovery) -- permeated Puritan society and came to define the very boundaries of English culture, affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native Americans, and the development of American literature. Van Engen re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives, transatlantic relations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative -- and Puritan culture more generally -- through the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book reveals the religious history of a concept that has previously been associated with more secular roots.
Author : Colie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 1957-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521046886
This book demonstrates the influence of the Dutch Arminians and the Cambridge Platonists on the international enlightening of the seventeenth century.