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The precisianist strain : disciplinary religion & antinomian backlash in Puritanism to 1638 /

In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bozeman, Theodore Dwight, 1942-
Collectivité auteur: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Collection:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Disciplinary themes in the English Reformation
  • Disciplinary themes of the Presbyterian movement
  • Discipline as stabilizer in shifting times
  • Richard Greenham and the first Protestant pietism
  • Piety and self-management after Richard Greenham
  • Introspection and self-control
  • Cases of conscience
  • More piety and more doubt
  • Taking stock : piety's gains and costs
  • John Eaton and the antinomian first wave
  • John Cotton : antinomian adumbrations
  • John Cotton in America : hypocrisy and crisis
  • John Cotton in America : transcendent gifts and operations
  • John Cotton and the American antinomians
  • The construction of American antinomianism.