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The first American evangelical : a short life of Cotton Mather /
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new biography Rick Kennedy tells a bigger story: Mather, he says, was the very first American...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Library of religious biography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; 1. The Last Decades of Puritan Boston; The Pastor's Study; Home School and Catechism; Ezekiel Cheever and the Latin School; 2. Cambridge: City of Books in the Republic of Letters; Saving Harvard; The Bible in Logick; Stammerer in the Library; The Eclectic American Scholar; 3. Listening for a Call; Closure with the Lord Jesus Christ; A Long Obedience in the Same Direction; Angelic Encounters; Accepting Vocations; Healer of Whole Persons; Historian of Demon Possession; 4. Entanglements of Church and State; Friendships, Fellowship, and Neighbors.
- April 18, 1689: Eleutherians in RevoltThe Protestant Interest; The Devil in Salem; The Levitation of Margaret Rule; American Historian and Boston Ebenezer; 5. The Birth of the American Evangelical Tradition; The Evangelical Interest Tugs at the Protestant Interest; An All
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- Long Faith; Charles Morton, the Spirit of Man, and Sanctification; "God Threw My Daughter in the Fire"; Thwarted from the Presidency of Harvard; 6. A Biblical Enlightenment; Defining "Enlightenment"; Eat This Book; Was Nebuchadnezzar a Werewolf?; Humanitarian Acts and Institutions, Freedom, and Liberty.
- "The Month That Devoured My Family"7. The Practice at the Top of Christianity; Winter Piety; An Accomplished Singer; A Burning Bush; Acknowledgments and Bibliography; The Cotton Mather Trail: A Walking Tour in Boston Connected to the Freedom Trail; Index.