The Puritan in the Enlightenment
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Enlightenment
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Enlightenment
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Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520038639
Author : Michael Paul Winship
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,3 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 : Zachary James Haberler
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Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Clergy
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"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 : Cushing Strout
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1968
Category : United States
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Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
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ISBN : 0520312732
Author : John M. Owen IV
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231526628
Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a more religiously moderate path. In nine original essays, leading scholars ask whether exporting the Enlightenment solution is possible or even desirable today. Contributors begin by revisiting the Enlightenment's restructuring of the West, examining its ongoing encounters with Protestant and Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism. While acknowledging the necessity of the Enlightenment emphasis on toleration and peaceful religious coexistence, these scholars nevertheless have grave misgivings about the Enlightenment's spiritually thin secularism. The authors ultimately upend both the claim that the West's experience offers a ready-made template for the world to follow and the belief that the West's achievements are to be ignored, despised, or discarded.
Author : George Lachmann Mosse
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Enlightenment
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Author : George L. Mosse
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
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Author : Abram C. Van Engen
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Page : 329 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199379637
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.