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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... scripture to illustrate or introduce a point , safely assuming that his auditors will instantly recall the rest of the passage . In such instances we usually give the remainder of the quotation in a note . Our work has been cooperative ...
... scripture and for understanding his- tory , a technique called typology . This typological method was nearly as ancient as the prophetic tradition . Paul , for example , speaks in his letters to the Corinthians and the Romans of typoi ...
... scripture — allowed the faintly heathenish im- agery of certain Old Testament books to enter their permissible lexicon . The apparently carnal images of the Song of Solomon , for example , could be interpreted allegorically , so that ...
... [ scripture ] is singular , in that it serveth for a preparative unto sermons . " To Hooker this relation between reading and preaching seemed exactly the reverse of the truth : Unless , therefore , clean contrary to our own experience ...
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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 |