Author: Michael G. Hall
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Powerful preacher, political negotiator for New England in the halls of Parliament, president of Harvard, father of Cotton Mather, Increase Mather was the epitome of the American Puritan. He was the most important spokesman of his generation for Congregationalism and became the last American Puritan of consequence as the seventeenth century ended. The story begins in 1639 when Mather was born in the Massachusetts village of Dorchester. He left home for Harvard College when he was twelve and at twenty-two began to stir the city of Boston from the pulpit of North Church. He had written four books by the time he was thirty-two. Certain he was God's chosen instrument and New England God's chosen people, he disciplined mind and spirit in service to them both. Tempted to "Atheisme" and unbelief, afflicted early by nightmares and melancholy, then by hope and joy, he was a pioneer in recognizing the excitement of the new sciences and sought to reconcile them to theology. This well-wrought biography, the first of Increase Mather in forty years, draws on the extensive Mather diaries, which were transcribed by Michael Hall.
The Last American Puritan
Author: Michael G. Hall
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Powerful preacher, political negotiator for New England in the halls of Parliament, president of Harvard, father of Cotton Mather, Increase Mather was the epitome of the American Puritan. He was the most important spokesman of his generation for Congregationalism and became the last American Puritan of consequence as the seventeenth century ended. The story begins in 1639 when Mather was born in the Massachusetts village of Dorchester. He left home for Harvard College when he was twelve and at twenty-two began to stir the city of Boston from the pulpit of North Church. He had written four books by the time he was thirty-two. Certain he was God's chosen instrument and New England God's chosen people, he disciplined mind and spirit in service to them both. Tempted to "Atheisme" and unbelief, afflicted early by nightmares and melancholy, then by hope and joy, he was a pioneer in recognizing the excitement of the new sciences and sought to reconcile them to theology. This well-wrought biography, the first of Increase Mather in forty years, draws on the extensive Mather diaries, which were transcribed by Michael Hall.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572543
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Powerful preacher, political negotiator for New England in the halls of Parliament, president of Harvard, father of Cotton Mather, Increase Mather was the epitome of the American Puritan. He was the most important spokesman of his generation for Congregationalism and became the last American Puritan of consequence as the seventeenth century ended. The story begins in 1639 when Mather was born in the Massachusetts village of Dorchester. He left home for Harvard College when he was twelve and at twenty-two began to stir the city of Boston from the pulpit of North Church. He had written four books by the time he was thirty-two. Certain he was God's chosen instrument and New England God's chosen people, he disciplined mind and spirit in service to them both. Tempted to "Atheisme" and unbelief, afflicted early by nightmares and melancholy, then by hope and joy, he was a pioneer in recognizing the excitement of the new sciences and sought to reconcile them to theology. This well-wrought biography, the first of Increase Mather in forty years, draws on the extensive Mather diaries, which were transcribed by Michael Hall.
The Devil's Dominion
Author: Richard Godbeer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Devil's Dominion examines the use of folk magic by ordinary men and women in early New England. The book describes in vivid detail the magical techniques used by settlers and the assumptions which underlaid them. Godbeer argues that layfolk were generally far less consistent in their beliefs and actions than their ministers would have liked; even church members sometimes turned to magic. The Devil's Dominion reveals that the relationship between magical and religious belief was complex and ambivalent: some members of the community rejected magic altogether, but others did not. Godbeer argues that the controversy surrounding astrological prediction in early New England paralleled clerical condemnation of magical practice, and that the different perspectives on witchcraft engendered by magical tradition and Puritan doctrine often caused confusion and disagreement when New Englanders sought legal punishment of witches.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Devil's Dominion examines the use of folk magic by ordinary men and women in early New England. The book describes in vivid detail the magical techniques used by settlers and the assumptions which underlaid them. Godbeer argues that layfolk were generally far less consistent in their beliefs and actions than their ministers would have liked; even church members sometimes turned to magic. The Devil's Dominion reveals that the relationship between magical and religious belief was complex and ambivalent: some members of the community rejected magic altogether, but others did not. Godbeer argues that the controversy surrounding astrological prediction in early New England paralleled clerical condemnation of magical practice, and that the different perspectives on witchcraft engendered by magical tradition and Puritan doctrine often caused confusion and disagreement when New Englanders sought legal punishment of witches.
Kometographia. Or A Discourse Concerning Comets
Komētographia
Kometographia, Or, A Discourse Concerning Comets
The Mathers
Author: Robert Middlekauff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520219304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520219304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Komitografia [Kometographia] Or a Discourse Concerning Comets
Author: Increase Mather
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Rare Americana
Author: Anson Phelps Stokes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Sales
Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
The Tayloring Shop
Author: Edward Taylor
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The bodies of tradition discussed here range from the Puritan concept of nature to Puritan casuistry. Three of the traditions presented - nature, casuistical, and elegiac - are analyzed for the way in which they help us understand the basic ideas in and the development of Taylor's poetry.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The bodies of tradition discussed here range from the Puritan concept of nature to Puritan casuistry. Three of the traditions presented - nature, casuistical, and elegiac - are analyzed for the way in which they help us understand the basic ideas in and the development of Taylor's poetry.