The Genesis of the New England Churches
The Genesis of the New England Churches

Author: Leonard Bacon

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1429018232

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With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

Visible Saints
Visible Saints

Author: Edmund Sears Morgan

Publisher: Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University Press [1965

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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Through a detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and America, 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. Morgan convincingly suggests 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--From publisher description.

Ten New England Leaders
Ten New England Leaders

Author: Williston Walker

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2004-01-26

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1592444881

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A preeminent American church historian offers ten biographical sketches of New England church leaders. This book grew out of a series of lectures given at Andover Theological Seminary in 1898 and 1899. In them Walker aimed to present varied and typical representatives of the religious thought of Congregational New England. Presented are biographies of: William Bradford John Cotton Richard Mather John Eliot Increase Mather Jonathan Edwards Charles Chauncy Samuel Hopkins Leonard Woods Leonard Bacon