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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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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.