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An introduction to the Puritans, their writings and pastoral work, dealing with the Puritans as counselors, pastors, theologians and in private.
Author : Peter Lewis
Publisher : Soli Deo Gloria Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781573580311
An introduction to the Puritans, their writings and pastoral work, dealing with the Puritans as counselors, pastors, theologians and in private.
Author : J. Gregory
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Puritans
ISBN :
Author : John Tulloch
Publisher : Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691
ISBN :
Author : Richard Salter Storrs
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Puritan movements
ISBN :
Author : Alan Heimert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 1985-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674740661
In a felicitous blend of documents and narrative Heimert and Delbanco recapture the sweep and restless change of Puritan thought from its incipient Americanism through its dominance in New England society to its fragmentation in the face of dissent from within and without.
Author : Robert Middlekauff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1999-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0520923111
In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers—Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather—in order to challenge the traditional telling of the secularization of Puritanism, a story of faith transformed by reason, science, and business. Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and uncompromising than traditional accounts have allowed. At the same time, he portrays changing ideas and patterns of behavior that reveal much about the first hundred years of American life.
Author : James Heron
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Puritans
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Author : Randall J. Pederson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004278516
Unity in Diversity presents a fresh appraisal of the vibrant and diverse culture of Stuart Puritanism, provides a historiographical and historical survey of current issues within Puritanism, critiques notions of Puritanisms, which tend to fragment the phenomenon, and introduces unitas within diversitas within three divergent Puritans, John Downame, Francis Rous, and Tobias Crisp. This study draws on insights from these three figures to propose that seventeenth-century English Puritanism should be thought of both in terms of Familienähnlichkeit, in which there are strong theological and social semblances across Puritans of divergent persuasions, and in terms of the greater narrative of the Puritan Reformation, which united Puritans in their quest to reform their church and society.
Author : Leonard Withington
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 1836
Category : American essays
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Author : Wallace Williams Marshall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 16,31 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.