Author: Ezra Hoyt ByingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Puritan as a Colonist and Reformer,
Author: Ezra Hoyt ByingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A Reforming People
Author: David D. HallPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0679441174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Distinguished historian Hall presents a revelatory account of New England's Puritans that shows them to have been the most daring and successful reformers of the Anglo-colonial world.
The Puritan as a Colonist and Reformer
Author: Ezra Hoyt ByingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Francis J. BremerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199740879
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the Puritan legacy in American history. Francis J. Bremer discusses the rise of Puritanism in the English Reformation, the struggle of the reformers to purge what they viewed as the corruptions of Roman Catholicism from the Elizabethan church, and the struggle with the Stuart monarchs that led to a brief Puritan triumph under Oliver Cromwell. It also examines the effort of Puritans who left England to establish a godly kingdom in America. Bremer examines puritan theology, views on family and community, their beliefs about the proper relationship between religion and public life, the limits of toleration, the balance between individual rights and one's obligation to others, and the extent to which public character should be shaped by private religious belief. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
They Knew They Were Pilgrims
Author: John G. TurnerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
An ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims’ definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow. Drawing on original research using underutilized sources, John G. Turner moves beyond these familiar narratives in his sweeping and authoritative new history of Plymouth Colony. Instead of depicting the Pilgrims as otherworldly saints or extraordinary sinners, he tells how a variety of English settlers and Native peoples engaged in a contest for the meaning of American liberty.
Puritans in the New World
Author: David D. HallPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691114099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Puritans in the New World tells the story of the powerful yet turbulent culture of the English people who embarked on an "errand into the wilderness." It presents the Puritans in their own words, shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and of the orthodox leaders who contended against them. Classics of Puritan expression, like Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, Anne Bradstreet's poetry, and William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation appear alongside texts that are less well known but no less important: confessions of religious experience by lay people, the "diabolical" possession of a young woman, and the testimony of Native Americans who accept Christianity. Hall's chapter introductions provide a running history of Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England and alert readers to important scholarship. Above all, this is a collection of texts that vividly illuminates the experience of being a Puritan in the New World. The book will be welcomed by all those who are interested in early American literature, religion, and history.
Hot Protestants
Author: Michael P. WinshipPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030012628X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking volume traces puritanism's tumultuous history from its initial attempts to reshape the Church of England to its establishment of godly republics in both England and America and its demise at the end of the seventeenth century. Shedding new light on puritans whose impact was far-reaching as well as on those who left only limited traces behind them, Michael Winship delineates puritanism's triumphs and tribulations and shows how the puritan project of creating reformed churches working closely with intolerant godly governments evolved and broke down over time in response to changing geographical, political, and religious exigencies.
History of the Christian Church: The Puritan reform and the evangellical revival, 1648-1800
Author: George Herbert DryerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Puritan As a Colonist and Reformer
Author: Ezra Hoyt ByingtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404136017
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Puritan Experiment
Author: Francis J. BremerPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680867
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The comprehensive history of a system of faith that shaped the nation.