The Puritans in America: A Narrative AnthologyAlan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco Harvard University Press, 22 de febr. 1985 - 438 pàgines The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Cromwell called “a poor, cold, and useless” place—where they created a body of ideas and aspirations that were essential in the shaping of American religion, politics, and culture. |
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... God's freely dispensed forgiveness and man's capacity to earn it tended to be lost . That loss encouraged an image — often a caricature — of the church as an enterprise in the business of selling God's forgiveness . Even after Henry ...
... God's grace could be neither earned nor resisted . Arminius implied that man , like a beggar , could at least stretch out his hand to accept or ward off God's proffered grace . The will of God , in short , was not entirely immune to the ...
... God's work , " explained Cotton in his later sermons on Ecclesiastes , " to set good and evil times in a vicissitude or enterchange . " The darker the night , the brighter would be the day . In part , therefore , to meet potential ...
... God's assault upon the Spanish empire in the New World . Nearly twenty years later , Sewall found the same geographic promise in the Gospels : " I have for several years supposed that something of a local consideration is couched in the ...
... God's church on earth might commence there . " Reading the same text and watching the same events , Edwards ... God . " In 1743 this was already an old dispute , and it remains , perhaps , unresolved by Edwards ' and Chauncy's posterity ...
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LOOMINGS | 17 |
THOMAS HOOKER 15861647 | 22 |
JOHN COTTON 15841652 | 27 |
THOMAS SHEPARD 16051649 | 33 |
THE MIGRATION | 37 |
PLYMOUTH | 41 |
G Mourt | 45 |
THOMAS MORTON 15751646 | 48 |
ROGER WILLIAMS | 207 |
THE PASSING OF THE FATHERS | 210 |
NEW ENGLAND ALONE | 218 |
JOHN NORTON | 224 |
THE JEREMIAD | 229 |
INCREASE MATHER 16391723 The Mystery of Israels Salvation 1667 | 237 |
THOMAS SHEPARD JR 16351677 | 247 |
THE REVIVAL OF PIETY | 261 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 51 |
WILLIAM AMES 15761633 | 59 |
THOMAS HOOKER | 62 |
JOHN WINTHROP 15881649 | 70 |
JOHN COTTON | 75 |
JOHN WINTHROP | 81 |
JOHN COTTON | 93 |
JOHN WINTHROP | 97 |
WILLIAM HOOKE 16001677 | 102 |
JOHN COTTON | 107 |
EDWARD JOHNSON 15981672 | 112 |
PETER BULKELEY 15831659 | 117 |
CITY ON A HILL | 123 |
The First American Poetry | 126 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 16121672 | 128 |
THE ANTINOMIAN CRISIS | 149 |
ANNE HUTCHINS ON 15911643 | 154 |
JOHN WINTHROP | 164 |
HENRY VANE 16131662 | 168 |
THOMAS SHEPARD | 171 |
THOMAS HOOKER | 176 |
THE SPECTER OF TOLERATION | 179 |
BUSINESS IN THE BIBLE COMMONWEALTH | 185 |
O NEW ENGLAND | 189 |
THE COTTONWILLIAMS DEBATE | 196 |
JOHN COTTON | 201 |
SOLOMON STODDARD 16341729 | 268 |
COMING OF AGE | 273 |
THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS | 277 |
SAMUEL SEWALL | 291 |
EDWARD TAYLOR 16421729 | 294 |
COTTON MATHER 16631728 | 316 |
COTTON MATHER | 323 |
COTTON MATHER | 330 |
WITCHCRAFT | 337 |
SUSANN A MARTIN | 342 |
MARY EASTY | 345 |
ROBERT CALEF 16481719 | 347 |
POLITICS AND SOCIETY | 351 |
JOHN WISE 16521725 | 359 |
JEREMIAH DUMMER 16791739 | 366 |
A NEW STYLE | 370 |
THE DISPERSION OF THE NEW ENGLAND WAY | 379 |
JOSEPH MORGAN 1671c 1745 | 383 |
SOLOMON STODDARD | 386 |
SAMUEL JOHNSON 16961772 | 389 |
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 17061790 | 395 |
JOHN BULKELEY 16791731 | 400 |
AFTERWORD | 405 |
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