The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England write by Sarah Rivett. This book was released on 2012-12-01. The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular, they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the center of the Salem witch trials, Native American converts, and dying women as a source of material insight into the divine. Conversions and deathbed speeches were thus scrutinized for evidence of grace in a way that bridged the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible, the worldly and the divine. In this way, the "science of the soul" was as much a part of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophy as it was part of post-Reformation theology. Rivett's account restores the unity of religion and science in the early modern world and highlights the role and importance of both to transatlantic circuits of knowledge formation.
A Reforming People
A Reforming People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Reforming People write by David D. Hall. This book was released on 2012-08-01. A Reforming People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on "consent" as a premise of all civil governance. Puritans also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts with the intention of establishing equity. In this political and social history of the five New England colonies, Hall provides a masterful re-evaluation of the earliest moments of New England's history, revealing the colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their day.
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Awakening write by Richard L. Bushman. This book was released on 1970. The Great Awakening available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745
The Precisianist Strain
The Precisianist Strain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Precisianist Strain write by Theodore Dwight Bozeman. This book was released on 2012-12-01. The Precisianist Strain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist Strain clarifies what Puritanism in its disciplinary mode meant for an early modern society struggling with problems of change, order, and identity. Focusing on ascetic teachings and rites, which in their severity fostered the "precisianist strain" prevalent in Puritan thought and devotional practice, Bozeman traces the reactions of believers put under ever more meticulous demands. Sectarian theologies of ease and consolation soon formed in reaction to those demands, Bozeman argues, eventually giving rise to a "first wave" of antinomian revolt, including the American conflicts of 1636-1638. Antinomianism, based on the premise of salvation without strictness and duty, was not so much a radicalization of Puritan content as a backlash against the whole project of disciplinary religion. Its reconceptualization of self and responsibility would affect Anglo-American theology for decades to come.
American Literature and the New Puritan Studies
American Literature and the New Puritan Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Literature and the New Puritan Studies write by Bryce Traister. This book was released on 2017-09-07. American Literature and the New Puritan Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational to the study of American literature. It invites readers of American literature and culture to reconsider the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States of America and its consequent cultural and literary histories. It also records the significant transformation in the field of Puritan studies that has taken place in the last quarter century. In addition to re-reading well known texts of seventeenth-century Puritan New England, the volume contains essays focused on unknown or lesser studied events and texts, as well as new scholarship on post-Puritan archives, monuments, and historiography.
