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The New England mind, from colony to province /

The New England Mind: From Colony to Province is one of Perry Miller's masterworks, exploring the intellectual history of the Puritans through a deep investigation of the thought of the Puritan divines. In this book, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Mill...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Perry, 1905-1963
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [1983].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue: Richard Mather's Farewell
  • I. Declension
  • The Wrath of Jehovah
  • The Jeremiad
  • The Protestant Ethic
  • The Expanding Limits of Natural Ability
  • Hypocrisy
  • Children of the Covenant
  • Half-way Measures
  • Revivalism
  • Intolerance
  • Propaganda
  • II. Confusion
  • Profile of a Provincial Mentality
  • Salvaging the Covenant
  • The Judgment of the Witches
  • The Dilemma of the Sacraments
  • Contention
  • The Failure of Centralization
  • The Unresolved Debate
  • The Poison of Wise's Cursed Libel
  • III. The Splintering of Society
  • A Medium of Trade
  • Antiministerial Sentiment
  • The Judgment of the Smallpox
  • A Secular State
  • A Tender Plant
  • IV. The Socialization of Piety
  • Do-Good
  • Reason
  • The Experimental Philosophy
  • The Death of an Idea
  • Polity as a Form of Patriotism
  • Epilogue: Vale Atque Ave.