Author: Margaret Bendroth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962401X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.
Author: James Innell Packer
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 9780891078197
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Surveys the teachings and beliefs of the Puritans, and calls today's Christians to follow their example of spiritual maturity.
Author: George Santayana
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
ISBN:
Category : Young men
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Author: David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Publisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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This volume brings together, for the first time, the addresses given by Dr Lloyd-Jones at the Puritan Studies and Westminster Conferences between 1959 and 1978.
Author: Francis J. Bremer
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1584659599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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An introduction to the diverse lives of the Puritan founders by a leading expert
Author: David C. Brand
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9781555405830
Category : Arminianism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A work of theology and American church history, this volume examines the life and theology of the New England pastor-theologian Jonathan Edwards. Focusing on the glory of God as the dominant theme of Edwards' thought, the author examines Edward's use of Neoplatonist terminology and the language of the senses, and documents the Calvinistic and covenantal underpinnings of Edwards' theology. In the process, critical issues such as the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, disinterested benevolence and self-love, are brought to light. Students will find here an overview of Puritan New England, from its spiritual precoception in Calvin's Geneva to its post-revolutionary demise, including the emergence of Unitarianism and the Second Great Awakening.
Author: David D. Hall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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"Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished"--Provided by publisher.
Author: T. H. Breen
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780195032079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Examines and contrasts the early colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia to illuminate differences in culture, habits, and traditions
Author: Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674044609
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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These eight reports by white settlers held captive by Indians gripped the imagination not only of early settlers but also of American writers through our history. Puritans among the Indians presents, in modern spelling, the best of the New England narratives. These both delineate the social and ideological struggle between the captors and the settlers, and constitute a dramatic rendition of the Puritans' spiritual struggle for redemption.
Author: Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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