Visible Saints The History Of A Puritan Idea

Author : Edmund Sears Morgan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : 0801490413

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Visible Saints by Edmund Sears Morgan Pdf

Through a richly detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and America, Professor Morgan offers an important reinterpretation of a pivotal era in New England history. Historians have generally supposed that the main outlines of the Puritan church were determined in England and Holland and transplanted to the new world. The author convincingly suggests, instead, that the distinguishing characteristic of the New England churches--the ideal of a church composed exclusively of true and tested saints--developed fully only in the 1630's and 1640's, some time after the first settlers arrived in New England. He also examines the influence of the Separatist colony at Plymouth on the later settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and follows the difficulties created by a definition of the religious community so selective that the New England churches nearly expired for lack of saints to fill them.

Author : Prof. Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787204683

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Visible Saints by Prof. Edmund S. Morgan Pdf

While Morgan’s literary portfolio shows remarkable diversity, it is studded with works on Puritanism. “Visible Saints” further solidifies his reputation as a leading authority on this subject. An expanded version of his Anson G. Phelps Lectures of 1962 (presented at New York University), this slender volume, first published in 1963, focuses on the central issue of church membership. Morgan posits and develops a revisionary main thesis: the practice of basing membership upon a declaration of experiencing saving grace, or “conversion,” was first put into effect not in England, Holland, or Plymouth, as is commonly related, but in Massachusetts Bay Colony by non-separating Puritans. Characterized by stylistic grace and exegetic finesse, “Visible Saints” is another scholarly milestone in the “Millerian Age” of Puritan historiography. “Although he does not pretend to deal ‘exhaustively’ with the subject, Professor Morgan leaves few aspects untouched. Throughout, we are presented with thoughtful, original scholarship and with a skillful reinterpretation of a Puritan idea.”―New England Quarterly

Author : Edmund S.. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Puritans
ISBN : OCLC:222536447

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Visible Saints by Edmund S.. Morgan Pdf

Author : D. Densil Morgan
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786832399

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Theologia Cambrensis by D. Densil Morgan Pdf

The first of a two-volume analysis of theology in Wales, this volume begins with the publication of Bishop William Morgan’s Bible in 1588 and concludes with the first phase of the Evangelical Revival in 1760. It assesses the development of Puritanism and of doctrine within the Church of England, Dissenting theology including Calvinism and Arminianism, the doctrinal vision of Griffith Jones Llanddowror, and the way in which an evangelistically vibrant moderate Calvinism contributed to the rise of the Methodist movement. As well as evaluating thought and ideas, it assesses the contribution of such vivid personalities as Morgan Llwyd, Charles Edwards, James and Jeremy Owen, Daniel Rowland and William Williams Pantycelyn.

Author : Baird Tipson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190266349

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Hartford Puritanism by Baird Tipson Pdf

Statues of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone grace downtown Hartford, Connecticut, but few residents are aware of the distinctive version of Puritanism that these founding ministers of Harford's First Church carried into to the Connecticut wilderness (or indeed that the city takes its name from Stone's English birthplace). Shaped by interpretations of the writings of Saint Augustine largely developed during the ministers' years at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Hartford's church order diverged in significant ways from its counterpart in the churches of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hartford Puritanism argues for a new paradigm of New England Puritanism. Hartford's founding ministers, Baird Tipson shows, both fully embraced - and even harshened - Calvin's double predestination. Tipson explores the contributions of the lesser-known William Perkins, Alexander Richardson, and John Rogers to Thomas Hooker's thought and practice: the art and content of his preaching, as well as his determination to define and impose a distinctive notion of conversion on his hearers. The book draws heavily on Samuel Stone's The Whole Body of Divinity, a comprehensive exposition of his thought and the first systematic theology written in the American colonies. Virtually unknown today, The Whole Body of Divinity not only provides the indispensable intellectual context for the religious development of early Connecticut but also offers a more comprehensive description of the Puritanism of early New England than any other document.

Author : Stephen Wilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047416258

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Virtue Reformed by Stephen Wilson Pdf

Drawing on Protestant scholasticism, Puritan “precisionism,” and virtue ethics, Virtue Reformed offers a comprehensive rereading of the ethical position of American philosopher-theologian Jonathan Edwards and his fascinating struggle to be both forwarder of the Reformation and participant in the Enlightenment.

Author : Andrew Mallory
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004216402

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Saints, Sinners, and the God of the World by Andrew Mallory Pdf

Representing important new primary source material for scholars of early New England; Saints, Sinners, and the God of the World: The Hartford Sermon Notebook Transcribed, 1679-1680, is a complete transcription of 62 previously unknown Puritan sermons from five different ministers.

Author : Sarah Rivett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838709

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The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England by Sarah Rivett Pdf

The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular, they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the center of the Salem witch trials, Native American converts, and dying women as a source of material insight into the divine. Conversions and deathbed speeches were thus scrutinized for evidence of grace in a way that bridged the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible, the worldly and the divine. In this way, the "science of the soul" was as much a part of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophy as it was part of post-Reformation theology. Rivett's account restores the unity of religion and science in the early modern world and highlights the role and importance of both to transatlantic circuits of knowledge formation.

Author : Markus Bohlmann
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498525800

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Misfit Children by Markus Bohlmann Pdf

Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the practices that turn those who fit into misfits, and vice versa. This collection of essays on misfit children produces transmissible motions across and engages in scholarly conversations that unfold betwixt and between in order to make rigid concepts twist and twirl, and ultimately fail to fit.

Author : David W. Kling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199717590

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A History of Christian Conversion by David W. Kling Pdf

Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity. In this first in-depth and wide-ranging narrative history, David Kling examines the dynamic of turning to the Christian faith by individuals, families, and people groups. Global in reach, the narrative progresses from early Christian beginnings in the Roman world to Christianity's expansion into Europe, the Americas, China, India, and Africa. Conversion is often associated with a particular strand of modern Christianity (evangelical) and a particular type of experience (sudden, overwhelming). However, when examined over two millennia, it emerges as a phenomenon far more complex than any one-dimensional profile would suggest. No single, unitary paradigm defines conversion and no easily explicable process accounts for why people convert to Christianity. Rather, a multiplicity of factors-historical, personal, social, geographical, theological, psychological, and cultural-shape the converting process. A History of Christian Conversion not only narrates the conversions of select individuals and peoples, it also engages current theories and models to explain conversion, and examines recurring themes in the conversion process: divine presence, gender and the body, agency and motivation, testimony and memory, group- and self-identity, "authentic" and "nominal" conversion, and modes of communication. Accessible to scholars, students, and those with a general interest in conversion, Kling's book is the most satisfying and comprehensive account of conversion in Christian history to date; this major work will become a standard must-read in conversion studies.

Author : Patricia Caldwell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521311470

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The Puritan Conversion Narrative by Patricia Caldwell Pdf

In the mid-seventeenth century, persons on both sides of the Atlantic wishing to join a Puritan church had to appear before all of its members and tell the story of their religious conversion - in effect, to give convincing verbal evidence that their souls were saved. This book explores the testimonies of spiritual experience delivered by puritans in the mid-seventeenth century in order to qualify for membership of their local churches.

Author : Francis Bremer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137352897

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Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism by Francis Bremer Pdf

A study of the rise and decline of puritanism in England and New England that focuses on the role of godly men and women. It explores the role of family devotions, lay conferences, prophesying and other means by which the laity influenced puritan belief and practice, and the efforts of the clergy to reduce lay power in the seventeenth century.

Author : John Coffey,Professor of Early Modern History John Coffey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Protestantism
ISBN : 9780198702238

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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I by John Coffey,Professor of Early Modern History John Coffey Pdf

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the post-Reformation era between the Act of Uniformity (1559) and the Act of Toleration (1689). It reassesses the relationship between establishment and Dissent, emphasising that Presbyterians and Congregationalists were serious contenders in the struggle for religious hegemony. Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, separatists were few in number, and Dissent was largely contained within the Church of England, as nonconformists sought to reform the national Church from within. During the English Revolution (1640-60), Puritan reformers seized control of the state but splintered into rival factions with competing programmes of ecclesiastical reform. Only after the Restoration, following the ejection of two thousand Puritan clergy from the Church, did most Puritans become Dissenters, often with great reluctance. Dissent was not the inevitable terminus of Puritanism, but the contingent and unintended consequence of the Puritan drive for further reformation. The story of Dissent is thus bound up with the contest for the established Church, not simply a heroic tale of persecuted minorities contending for religious toleration. Nevertheless, in the half century after 1640, religious pluralism became a fact of English life, as denominations formed and toleration was widely advocated. The volume explores how Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers began to forge distinct identities as the four major denominational traditions of English Dissent. It tracks the proliferation of Anglophone Protestant Dissent beyond England--in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, New England, Pennsylvania, and the Caribbean. And it presents the latest research on the culture of Dissenting congregations, including their relations with the parish, their worship, preaching, gender relations, and lay experience.

Author : Monica D. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478786

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Puritans Behaving Badly by Monica D. Fitzgerald Pdf

Examines the sins and confessions in church disciplinary records to argue that daily practices created a gendered Puritanism.

Author : William R. Everdell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030697624

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The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment by William R. Everdell Pdf

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures include Muḥammad Ibn abd al-Waḥhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel Ba’al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the conflicted relationship between the “evangelical” movements in all three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while also appealing to the interested lay reader.