The idea of a heavenly contract, uniting God and humanity in a bargain of salvation, emerged as the keystone of Puritan theology in early modern England. Yet this concept, with its connotations of …
Originally published in 1900. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles …
In broadest terms, this study represents an attempt to bridge the gap between these approaches and to examine and demonstrate the dialectic between Puritan ideas and ideologies on the one hand popu…
Interest in American puritanism is at an unprecedented high. Almost every year several new books add to the already impressive corpus on the early settlers of New England and their impact on Americ…
On a cold winter day in February 1674, the Referend increase Mather launched into the first of the powerful sermons that would assure him a place of importance in the city of Boston and in the hist…