Cargando…

Godly republicanism : Puritans, pilgrims, and a city on a hill /

Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the new world--they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking y...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winship, Michael P. (Michael Paul)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : an old man's tears for godly republicanism
  • The rise and bleeding fall of Elizabethan godly republicanism
  • The separatist beginnings of Congregationalism and Presbyterianism
  • James I and a new crisis of antichristian power
  • The triumphs and trials of the Lord's free people
  • Christian liberty at Plymouth Plantation
  • Separatism at Salem?
  • The appeal of Massachusetts Congregationalism
  • Designing a godly republic
  • A city on a hill
  • Godly republicanism's apocalypse.