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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... civil punishment , and a gen- eral association of the clergy with corruption , ignorance , and foreign allegiances — to Rome and Spain in particular — created an atmosphere of hostility between ordinary Englishmen and their spiritual ...
... civil magistrate — were at bottom literary disagreements . Not until American politics split between " strict " and " loose " constructions of the Constitution did the reading of a prescriptive text again matter so much in American ...
... civil objects , much less upon spiritual , but upon civil objects they cannot be so com- bined together ... There is another combination of virtues strangely mixed in every lively holy Christian , and that is diligence in worldly ...
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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 |