The Puritan Experiment
Author: Francis J. Bremer
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1611680867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe comprehensive history of a system of faith that shaped the nation.
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Author: Francis J. Bremer
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1611680867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe comprehensive history of a system of faith that shaped the nation.
Author: Kevin Charles Butterfield
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis J. Bremer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-07-24
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 0199740879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten 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.
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 121
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Coffey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-10-09
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1139827820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts.
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Published: 1976
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael P. Winship
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 030012628X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 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: Francis J. Bremer
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1611682584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the diverse lives of the Puritan founders by a leading expert
Author: David D. Hall
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0679441174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguished historian Hall presents a revelatory account of New England's Puritans that shows them to have been the most daring and successful reformers of the Anglo-colonial world.