The Puritans in America: A Narrative AnthologyAlan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco Harvard University Press, 2009/07/01 - 456 ページ The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Cromwell called “a poor, cold, and useless” place—where they created a body of ideas and aspirations that were essential in the shaping of American religion, politics, and culture. |
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... Revelation , became the basis for official church doctrine until the Reformation . The devil's desperation , for example , as narrated in Revelation 20— " Satan shall be loosed out of his prison , And shall go out to deceive the nations ...
... Revelation were con- strued as an approximation , seemed imminent or overdue . Furthermore , the pace of events since Martin Luther had nailed his theses to the Wit- tenberg church door made many Puritans feel that history was not ...
... Revelation 20 , for example— " And I saw the dead , small and great , stand before God " —formerly interpreted as a literal ascent of bodies at the end of time , now was frequently taken to predict the imminent triumph of the true ...
... Revelation . Some New Englanders went so far as to construe their own crossing of the sea as an antitype of the exile of the Jews ; like Sewall , some concluded that their American refuge might actually be the New Jerusalem promised in ...
... Revelations of God . " In 1743 this was already an old dispute , and it remains , perhaps , unresolved by Edwards ' and Chauncy's posterity . It is , in some respects , easier to see conflict within Puritanism and among the heirs of ...
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THE MIGRATION | 37 |
CITY ON A HILL | 123 |
O NEW ENGLAND | 189 |
COMING OF AGE | 273 |
THE DISPERSION OF THE NEW ENGLAND WAY | 379 |
Afterword | 405 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES | 415 |
INDEX | 433 |