Author: Kennerly Merritt WoodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Bibliographical Notes to Cotton Mather's Manuductio Ad Ministerium
Author: Kennerly Merritt WoodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A Note on the Manuductio Ad Ministerium
Author: Perry MillerA Cotton Mather Reader
Author: Cotton MatherPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265468
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
An authoritative selection of the writings of one of the most important early American writers “A brilliant collection that reveals the extraordinary range of Cotton Mather’s interests and contributions—by far the best introduction to the mind of the Puritan divine.”—Francis J. Bremer, author of Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism Cotton Mather (1663–1728) has a wide presence in American culture, and longtime scholarly interest in him is increasing as more of his previously unpublished writings are made available. This reader serves as an introduction to the man and to his huge body of published and unpublished works.
Major Writers of Early American Literature
Author: Everett H. EmersonPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299061944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
An outstanding collection of original critical essays by distinguished specialists, this book is both a chronological survey of nearly 200 years of American literature and an exciting reappraisal of the major figures of that period. Includes works from Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, William Bryd, Anne Bradstreet, William Bradford, and others.
Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context
Author: Norman FieringPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1597526185
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The problems of moral philosophy were a central preoccupation of literate people in eighteenth-century America and Britain. It is not surprising, then, that Jonathan Edwards was drawn into a colloquy with some of the major ethicists of the age. Moral philosophy in this era was so all-encompassing in its claims that it encroached seriously on traditional religion. In response, Edwards presented a detailed analysis and criticism of secular moral philosophy in order to demonstrate its inadequacy, and he formulated a system that he believed was demonstrably superior to the existing secular systems. In this comprehensive study, Norman Fiering skillfully integrates Edwards's work on ethics into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and Continental philosophy and isolates Edwards's particular contributions to the ethical thought of his time. In addition, Fiering traces the chronological development of Edwards's thought, showing the relationship between his wide reading and his writing.
The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era
Author: Elmer J. O'BrienPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810863138
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 2,400 annotations of books, book chapters, essays, periodical articles, and selected dissertations dealing with the various means and technologies of Christian communication used by clergy, churches, denominations, benevolent associations, printers, booksellers, publishing houses, and individuals and movements in their efforts to disseminate news, knowledge, and information about religious beliefs and life in the United States from colonial times to the present. Providing access to the critical and interpretive literature about religious communication is significant and plays a central role in the recent trend in American historiography toward cultural history, particularly as it relates to numerous collateral disciplines: sociology, anthropology, education, speech, music, literary studies, art history, and technology. The book documents communication shifts, from oral history to print to electronic and visual media, and their adaptive uses in communication networks developed over the nation's history. This reference brings bibliographic control to a large and diverse literature not previously identified or indexed.
Cotton Mather
Author: Thomas James HolmesCotton Mather
Author: Babette May LevyPublisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A biography of Cotton Mather that also closely examines his written work.
The American Pietism of Cotton Mather
Author: Richard F. LovelacePublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556353928
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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.
Denominationalism Illustrated and Explained
Author: Russell E. RicheyPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621895815
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Evidence of mainstream denominational decline virtually throws itself in our faces--growing religious pluralism in North America; the decline over the last half century in the salience, prestige, power, and vitality of Protestant denominational leadership; slippage in mainline membership and corresponding growth, vigor, visibility, and political prowess of conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist bodies; patterns of congregational independence, including loosening of or removal of denominational identity, particularly in signage, and the related marginal loyalty of members; emergence of megachurches, with resources and the capacity to meet needs heretofore supplied by denominations (training, literature, expertise); growth within mainline denominations of caucuses and their alignment into broad progressive or conservative camps, often with connections to similar camps in other denominations; widespread suspicion of, indeed hostility towards, the centers and symbols of denominational identity--the regional and national headquarters; migration of individuals and families through various religious identities, sometimes out of classic Christianity altogether. Denominationalism looks doomed and is so proclaimed. It may be. However, viewing the sweep of Anglo-American history, this volume suggests how much denominations and denominationalism have changed, how resilient they have proved, how significant these structures of religious belonging have been in providing order and direction to American society, and how such enduring purposes find ever new structural/institutional expression.