Author: Frederic DenisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charlestown (R.I. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Westerly (Rhode Island) and Its Witnesses
Author: Frederic DenisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charlestown (R.I. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society
Author: Rhode Island Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Narragansett Baptist Association, Rhode Island, 1860-1884
Author: Narragansett Baptist AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Minutes of the Rhode Island Baptist Anniversaries
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: The Triennial Baptist Register
Author: Ira Mason AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Inventory of the Church Archives of Rhode Island
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Rhode IslandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: Historical Sketch of the Town of Charlestown in Rhode Island
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charlestown (R.I. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Early New England
Author: David A. WeirPublisher: 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.