Author: David A. Weir
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802813527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
Early New England
Author: David A. Weir
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802813527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802813527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
Bulletin
Author: Connecticut State Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Publisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Official Record
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Inventory of Federal Archives in the States
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
Publisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Publisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Our Yankee Heritage
Author: Carleton Beals
Publisher:
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Category : Bristol (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bristol (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog
Author: Columbia University. Libraries. Library of the School of Library Service
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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