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Author : Orville Dewey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Claims of Puritanism written by Orville Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orville DEWEY
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Claims of Puritanism. A Sermon Preached at the Annual Election, May 31, 1826. Before His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Governor, the Honourable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts written by Orville DEWEY and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orville Dewey
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book The Claims of Puritanism written by Orville Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Foster
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838268
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Long Argument written by Stephen Foster and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster, Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble, who never decided whether they were the vanguard or the remnant. Indeed, in Foster's analysis, changes in New England Puritanism after the first decades of settlement did not indicate secularization and decline but instead were part of a pattern of change, conflict, and accomodation that had begun in England. He views the Puritans' own claims of declension as partisan propositions in an internal controversy as old as the Puritan movement itself. The result of these stresses and adaptations, he argues, was continued vitality in American Puritanism during the second half of the seventeenth century. Foster draws insights from a broad range of souces in England and America, including sermons, diaries, spiritual autobiographies, and colony, town, and court records. Moreover, his presentation of the history of the English and American Puritan movements in tandem brings out the fatal flaws of the former as well as the modest but essential strengths of the latter.
Author : Orville Dewey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259200376
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Claims of Puritanism written by Orville Dewey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Claims of Puritanism: A Sermon Preached at the Annual Election, May 31, 1826, Before His Excellency, Levi Lincoln, Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts Paritans was this great cause committed; and they proved themselves not unworthy of the trust. Animated at first by the love of religious liberty, demanding tole ration as the undoubted privilege Of that mind which God had made free - feeling that the rights of conscienc'e were not only rights, but duties also, they were insensibly lead and at the same time powerfully strengthened to assert the claim of political freedom. They did assert and main tain it; and in doing so, they have accomplished a work next only in importance to the introduction of Christianity itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : E. Brooks Holifield
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030010765X
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Theology in America written by E. Brooks Holifield and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial work of American theological history--authoritative, insightful, and unparalleled in scope This book, the most comprehensive survey of early American Christian theology ever written, encompasses scores of American theological traditions, schools of thought, and thinkers. E. Brooks Holifield examines mainstream Protestant and Catholic traditions as well as those of more marginal groups. He looks closely at the intricacies of American theology from 1636 to 1865 and considers the social and institutional settings for religious thought during this period. The book explores a range of themes, including the strand of Christian thought that sought to demonstrate the reasonableness of Christianity, the place of American theology within the larger European setting, the social location of theology in early America, and the special importance of the Calvinist traditions in the development of American theology. Broad in scope and deep in its insights, this magisterial book acquaints us with the full chorus of voices that contributed to theological conversation in America's early years.
Author : Francis J. Bremer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199715181
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction written by Francis J. Bremer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anonym
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640661079
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Puritan Legacy to American Politics written by Anonym and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: Americans express a peculiar fascination with the founding of their country. Both citizens and scholars often disagree over details of the beginnings but many Americans define themselves in relation to the founding. History inspires them and provides a patriotic sense of belonging. It is often debated whether current policies are faithful to the so-called founding principles, what has stayed the same and what has changed. Though many countries celebrate their birth, only Americans combine so much cultural myths and political history. Alexis de Tocqueville famously said: "I think I can see the whole destiny of America contained in the first Puritan who landed on those shores"(Tocqueville 1831-32). And indeed, much of American mainstream culture builds on a Puritan legacy. They claim to have inherited it by promoting the idea of religious freedom and equal opportunity, by being a 'city upon a hill', a stronghold for democracy, and much more. However, only by retracing the historical development of Puritanism and its roots, it becomes possible to determine what sufficiently defines the Puritan legacy and what causes the persistent relevance in American politics up to this day. As Perry Miller stated, " w]ithout some understanding of Puritanism, it may safely be said, there is no understanding of America" (Miller 1950, 4). In this work I will therefore begin with reviewing the historical background of Puritan theology and development in North America. Given this as a basis, I intend to trace back political modes of thought and behavior to Puritan roots. I will answer the question in how far Puritanism is still alive today and how its legacy to American politics can be described.
Author : Monica D. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110880506X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Puritans Behaving Badly written by Monica D. Fitzgerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the first three generations in Puritan New England, this book explores changes in language, gender expectations, and religious identities for men and women. The book argues that laypeople shaped gender conventions by challenging the ideas of ministers and rectifying more traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity. Although Puritan's emphasis on spiritual equality had the opportunity to radically alter gender roles, in daily practice laymen censured men and women differently – punishing men for public behavior that threatened the peace of their communities, and women for private sins that allegedly revealed their spiritual corruption. In order to retain their public masculine identity, men altered the original mission of Puritanism, infusing gender into the construction of religious ideas about public service, the creation of the individual, and the gendering of separate spheres. With these practices, Puritans transformed their 'errand into the wilderness' and the normative Puritan became female.
Author : Alan Simpson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Puritanism in Old and New England written by Alan Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David D. Hall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203377
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Puritans written by David D. Hall and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Wes Carpenter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (575 download)
Download or read book God and Money written by Wes Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbalanced views on the Puritans are commonplace today across many schools of thought, including socioeconomics. Milan Zafirovsk in his book Puritanism Verses Democracy and the Free Civil Society, audaciously claims, "Puritanism functions or appears as one of Popper's strongest, most persisting, vehement and, as Mill and Pareto imply, fanatical 'enemies' of a free open society and human freedom and even life." However, it is difficult to understand the Puritans in this way, as such vile enemies of liberty and even life itself. From a historical theological perspective, the Puritans proved to be quite the opposite. Joel Beeke has rather penned a proper caricature of Puritanism: In summary, the late sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century movement of Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism. Experientially, it was warm and contagious; evangelistically, it was aggressive, yet tender; ecclesiastically, it sought to practice the headship of Christ over the faith, worship, and order of His body, the church; politically, it was active, balanced, and bound by conscience before God, in the relations of king, Parliament, and subjects. Thus, on the tail winds of the Reformation bloomed the Puritan movement of godly devout men and women who sought a vast spiritual reformation in their families, society, government, churches, and across all areas of life, including monetary practice. In striking contrast to secular scholarly claims, the seventeenth-century Puritans consistently practiced the Golden Rule in all aspects of life including monetary practice. The love of neighbor was central to the Puritan view of money. The Puritans experientially practiced the Golden Rule for the glory of God and goodwill of the people in society. These claims raise serious questions about the modern scholarly socioeconomic theories on the Puritans and the validity of secular criticisms. This primer introduces the secular misrepresentations of the Puritans, historical dimensions of the seventeenth century English and American Puritan movement, and an analysis of monetary practice in the theology of John Calvin and the Puritans in response to modern secular theories. First, there is a brief overview of the misrepresentation of the Puritans and the historical context of the Puritans and pioneer Reformer John Calvin. This is important to understand the background of Puritan theology and monetary practice, consistency of the Puritans with Calvin, and disprove modern scholarly claims. This study explains the Puritans' scriptural duty to love their neighbor, and the practical applications of the Golden Rule against the corruptive monetary practices of the established church. Their monetary practice demonstrates the Puritans valued the greater good of society. Next, this study explains Calvin and the Puritans view on usury, commerce, and collecting fair interest. Attention is given to William Ames' influential work on social ethics, a discussion on Calvin and Puritans condemnation on abusing the poor, and the Puritan doctrine of labor. Then, there is an analysis on the implausibility of the causal relationship between Puritan monetary practice and modern-day capitalism. This primer explores Puritan monetary practice in trade, cautions on debt, and moderation as an ideal best fit within their theology of the Golden Rule. Finally, there is a response to scholarly claims of inconsistencies in Puritan monetary practice, particularly between Richard Baxter and Richard Steele. Despite these claims, John Owen and numerous Puritans demonstrate the moral contrast from the secular man. This work can help fill the gap of understanding on the Puritans among modern secular scholars. A new emphasis on the Golden Rule in the current body of literature on Puritan monetary practice can also help reform the church and society by following their example.
Author : Gerald Robertson Cragg
Publisher : Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From Puritanism to the Age of Reason written by Gerald Robertson Cragg and published by Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press. This book was released on 1950 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We recognize instinctively the importance of the issues raised in the religious discussion of the Restoration era. The place of reason, the character of morality, the limits of authority, the nature of the universe, the reign of law -- these are all questions which we still debate. What is more, we discuss them in essentially the same spirit as that which first emerged in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The period of transition is the generation which followed the Restoration, and during those years the new lines of thought were marked out." [Introduction] The author's main concern is with the eclipse of Calvinism, the Cambridge Platonists, the religious significance of Locke, Toland and the rise of Deism, the relationship between the Church and the civil power and the question of religious toleration.
Author : E. Digby Baltzell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351495348
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia written by E. Digby Baltzell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the calling or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.
Author : Michael P. Winship
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030012628X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Hot Protestants written by Michael P. Winship and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Kenyon Gradert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669402X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination written by Kenyon Gradert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.
Author : Alin Fumurescu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108415873
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Compromise and the American Founding written by Alin Fumurescu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original interpretation of 'the people's two bodies' that illuminates the opposite attitudes toward compromise throughout the American founding.
