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Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611680867
The comprehensive history of a system of faith that shaped the nation.
Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611682588
An introduction to the diverse lives of the Puritan founders by a leading expert
Author : John Coffey,Paul C. H. Lim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139827829
'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts.
Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199740879
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.
Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521098416
Over the last two decades a major revaluation has been taking place of the colonial Puritan imagination. With the growth of interest in early American literature has come increasing recognition of its quality and a better understanding of its place in the continuity of American culture. However, much of the best critical work to date has been published as articles in scholarly journals, and in bringing together for the first time the best work in this growing field the present anthology fills a number of important needs. It is at once a valuabale and accessible introduction for students, a summing-up of a new enterprise, and a guide for further studies.
Author : Dai Liu
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0874132835
Contributes to an understanding of the internal political and religious structure of the City of London during the period of the English Revolution. This monograph reconstructs the social structure and composition of each of the City parishes, surveys the successes and failures of Presbyterianism among the parishes, explores the new relationship between the Puritan ministers and the parishes, as well as discusses the Independents and the Anglicans in this time and setting.
Author : George Edward Ellis,George Ellis
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429022880
Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191077531
This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history. Contributions focus on key themes, such as Martin Luther or the Swiss reformations, offering an up-to-date perspective on current scholarly debates, but they also address many new themes at the cutting edge of scholarship, with particularly emphasis on the history of emotions, the history of knowledge, and global history. This new approach opens up fresh perspectives onto important questions: how did Protestant ways of conceiving the divine shape everyday life, ideas of the feminine or masculine, commercial practices, politics, notions of temporality, or violence? The aim of this Handbook is to bring to life the vitality of Reformation ideas. In these ways, the Handbook stresses that the Protestant Reformations in all their variety, and with their important "radical " wings, must be understood as one of the lasting long-term historical transformations which changed Europe and, subsequently, significant parts of the world.
Author : Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 0874518520
A classic documentary collection on New England's Puritan roots is once again available, with new material.
Author : John Howard Yoder
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780836198645
In a world where many believers have lost a sense of their true home in God’s alternative society, Revolutionary Christian Citizenship addresses the difficulties of being both a follower of Jesus and a citizen of a political nation. Down-to-earth and original, theologian John Howard Yoder challenges traditional understanding of politics and reconsiders Christian citizenship in three parts: the witness of Jesus, the witness of the church, and witness in action. More accessible and practical than most of Yoder’s works, Revolutionary Christian Citizenship bridges the gap between faith and politics, equipping us to faithfully represent Christ in society and wage peace in a world of war. Book Two in the Yoder for Everyone series. Free downloadable study guide available here.
Author : K. David Goss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216070849
There are few episodes in American history as interesting and controversial as the Salem Witch Trials. This work provides a revealing analysis of what it was like to live in Massachusetts during that time, creating a nuanced profile of New England Puritans and their culture. What was it like to live in the colony of Massachusetts during the last decade of the 17th century, the decade famed for the Salem Witch Trials? Daily Life during the Salem Witch Trials answers that question, offering a vivid portrait essential to anyone seeking to understand the traumatic events of the time in their proper historical context. The book begins with a historical overview tracing the development of the Puritan experiment in the Massachusetts colony from 1620 to 1692. It then explores the cultural values and day-to-day concerns of Puritan society in the late-17th century, including trends and patterns of behavior in family life, household activities, business and economics, political and military responsibilities, and religious belief. Each chapter interprets a different aspect of daily life as it was experienced by those who lived through the social crisis of the witch trials of 1692–93, helping readers better comprehend how the history-making events of those years could come to pass.
Author : Elizabeth J. Clapp,Julie Roy Jeffrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191618345
As historians have gradually come to recognize, the involvement of women was central to the anti-slavery cause in both Britain and the United States. Like their male counterparts, women abolitionists did not all speak with one voice. Among the major differences between women were their religious affiliations, an aspect of their commitment that has not been studied in detail. Yet it is clear that the desire to live out and practice their religious beliefs inspired many of the women who participated in anti-slavery activities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This book examines the part that the traditions, practices, and beliefs of English Protestant dissent and the American Puritan and evangelical traditions played in women's anti-slavery activism. Focusing particularly on Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Unitarian women, the essays in this volume move from accounts of individual women's participation in the movement as printers and writers, to assessments of the negotiations and the occasional conflicts between different denominational groups and their anti-slavery impulses. Together the essays in this volume explore how the tradition of English Protestant Dissent shaped the American abolitionist movement, and the various ways in which women belonging to the different denominations on both sides of the Atlantic drew on their religious beliefs to influence the direction of their anti-slavery movements. The collection provides a nuanced understanding of why these women felt compelled to fight for the end of slavery in their respective countries.
Author : Do Hoon Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666709810
John Eliot (1604–90) has been called “the apostle to the Indians.” This book looks at Eliot not from the perspective of modern Protestant “mission” studies (the approach mainly adopted by previous research) but in the historical and theological context of seventeenth-century puritanism. Drawing on recent research on migration to New England, the book argues that Eliot, like many other migrants, went to New England primarily in search of a safe haven to practice pure reformed Christianity, not to convert Indians. Eliot’s Indian ministry started from a fundamental concern for the conversion of the unconverted, which he derived from his experience of the puritan movement in England. Consequently, for Eliot, the notion of New England Indian “mission” was essentially conversion-oriented, Word-centered, and pastorally focused, and (in common with the broader aims of New England churches) pursued a pure reformed Christianity. Eliot hoped to achieve this through the establishment of Praying Towns organized on a biblical model—where preaching, pastoral care, and the practice of piety could lead to conversion—leading to the formation of Indian churches composed of “sincere converts.”
Author : David Daiches
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170230489
Author : George J. Gatgounis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725261198
The Puritans, who settled in America in the early 1600s, believed that if they followed God’s laws as individuals and as a society, God would prosper them. America would become “the new Israel,” God’s light for the rest of the world. The Rev. Dr. George Gatgounis wrote The Puritan View of Substantive Biblical Law both as a constitutional attorney and a biblical scholar. He did much of the research at Harvard, which was founded by the Puritans to train their clergy. Despite its outward appearance of harshness—such as the dozen transgressions that merited the death penalty in the Massachusetts Bay Colony—Puritan society was founded on the consent of the citizens. At the center was individual spirituality. That spirituality was to be maintained by a strict observance of the Sabbath, which centered around biblical preaching. Certainly there is no going back to a Puritan society in this postmodern era. But perhaps there is something to be learned to guide our way forward.