The Puritan Ordeal
The Puritan Ordeal

Author: Andrew Delbanco

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1991-04

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780674740563

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This book is about the experience of becoming American in the seventeenth century. It has in some respects the appearance of a study in intellectual history, but I prefer to think of it as a contribution to the history of what the Puritans called affections. My hope is to help advance our understanding not of ideas so much as of feeling-specifically of the affective life of some of the men and women who emigrated to New England more than three hundred fifty years ago, but also of the persistent sense of renewal and risk that has attended the project of becoming American ever since.

The Puritan Ideology of Mobility
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility

Author: Scott McDermott

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2022-02

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1785274732

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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations from one town to another within New England, and, often, their repatriation to the mother country. Puritan leaders believed firmly that nations, colonies, and towns were all “bodies politic,” that is, living and organic social bodies. However, if a social body became distempered because of scarce resources or political or religious discord, it became necessary to create a new social body from the old in order to restore balance and harmony. The new social body was articulated through the social ritual of land distribution according to Aristotelian “distributive justice.” The book will trace this process at work in the founding of Ipswich and its satellite town in Massachusetts.

The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement

Author: Patrick Collinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1000223450

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Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for ‘a further reformation’. It tells the fascinating story of the rise of a revolutionary moment and its ultimate destruction.

The Puritan Experiment
The Puritan Experiment

Author: Francis J. Bremer

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2013-01-08

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1611680867

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The comprehensive history of a system of faith that shaped the nation.

The Puritan View of Substantive Biblical Law
The Puritan View of Substantive Biblical Law

Author: George J. Gatgounis

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-09-03

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1725261197

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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.

The Puritan Gentry
The Puritan Gentry

Author: J. T. Cliffe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-16

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1000222977

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Originally published in 1984, this was the first detailed study of the impact of Puritan influences on the wealthy county families of early Stuart England. It discusses one of the central issues in the history of the English Civil War: what motivated those men and women who risked all in opposition to King Charles I. The book looks at the role played by gentry families in the advancement or defence of ‘true religion’, and considers the reasons why powerful families which helped to govern the counties were to be found among the godly. It explores the conflict between class values and the exacting demands of an austere religious philosophy and examines the relationship between the Puritan gentry and the clerical Puritans who included authors, university dons, schoolmasters, lecturers and parish clergy.