Puritanism and Liberty
Author: Arthur Sutherland Pigott Woodhouse
Publisher:
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9780226907031
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The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism
Author: 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.
God of Liberty
Author: Thomas S Kidd
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010-10-05
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0465022774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "thought-provoking, meticulously researched" testament to evangelical Christians' crucial contribution to American independence and a timely appeal for the same spiritual vitality today (Washington Times). At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, America was already a nation of diverse faiths-the First Great Awakening and Enlightenment concepts such as deism and atheism had endowed the colonists with varying and often opposed religious beliefs. Despite their differences, however, Americans found common ground against British tyranny and formed an alliance that would power the American Revolution. In God of Liberty, historian Thomas S. Kidd offers the first comprehensive account of religion's role during this transformative period and how it gave form to our nation and sustained it through its tumultuous birth -- and how it can be a force within our country during times of transition today.
Liberty and Reformation in the Puritan Revolution
Author: William Haller
Publisher:
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reformation of Rights
Author: John Witte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 0521818427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalvin's teachings spread rapidly throughout Western Europe shaping the law of early modern Protestant lands.
Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: 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.
John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution
Author: John Coffey
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1843834286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`A major contribution to our understanding of the English Revolution.' Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History, Keele University.
They Knew They Were Pilgrims
Author: John G. Turner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0300252307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims’ definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow. Drawing on original research using underutilized sources, John G. Turner moves beyond these familiar narratives in his sweeping and authoritative new history of Plymouth Colony. Instead of depicting the Pilgrims as otherworldly saints or extraordinary sinners, he tells how a variety of English settlers and Native peoples engaged in a contest for the meaning of American liberty.
Freedom and the English Revolution
Author: R. C. Richardson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780719023217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Agitation for Law Reform during the Puritan Revolution 1640–1660
Author: Stuart E. Prall
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9401509018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout this essay all dates are given in New Style. When pamphlets were originally dated Old Style, the new date has been substituted. In all quotations the original seventeenth-century spelling has been retained. A "sic" is placed in the quotation only where it appears to be certain that there has been a misprint in the original. I want to express my sincere gratitude to the late Professor Garrett Mattingly of Columbia University for his inspiration and guidance during the years spent under his sponsorship. It was a rare privilege to study under him. Professor Sidney Burrell of Barnard College offered many constructive suggestions and I am most appreciative of the kind interest he took in the completion of this study. I also wish to thank the editors of The American Journal of Legal History for publishing some of my material on Chancery reform in their Journal. The staff of the North Library of the British Museum was most helpful in making available the many volumes of the Thomason Collection. Thanks are also due to the staff of the Library of Union Theological Seminary who helped in the location of materials from the McAlpin Collection.
