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Book The Bloudy Tenent  Washed  and Made White in the Bloud of the Lambe

Download or read book The Bloudy Tenent Washed and Made White in the Bloud of the Lambe written by John Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bloody Tenent Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb

Download or read book Bloody Tenent Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb written by John Cotton and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1647 Edition.

Book The Puritans in America

Download or read book The Puritans in America written by Alan Heimert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In a felicitous blend of documents and narrative Alan Heimert and Andrew Delbanco recapture the sweep and restless change of Puritan thought from its incipient Americanism through its dominance in New England society to its fragmentation in the face of dissent from within and without. A general introduction sketches the Puritan environment, and shorter introductions open each of the six sections of the collection. Thirty-eight writers are included—among these Cotton, Bradford, Bradstreet, Winthrop, Rowlandson, Taylor, and the Mathers—as well as the testimony of Anne Hutchinson and documents illustrating the witchcraft crisis. The works, several of which are published here for the first time since the seventeenth century, are presented in modern spelling and punctuation. Despite numerous scholarly probings, Puritanism remains resistant to categories, whether those of Perry Miller, Max Weber, or Christopher Hill. This new anthology—the first major interpretive collection in nearly fifty years—reveals the beauty and power of Puritan literature as it emerged from the pursuit of self-knowledge in the New World.

Book A Short History of American Literature

Download or read book A Short History of American Literature written by Walter Cochrane Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opening Scripture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa M. Gordis
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2003-01-15
  • ISBN : 0226304124
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Opening Scripture written by Lisa M. Gordis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Opening Scripture provides a thorough and original account of ministerial and lay strategies for interpreting Scripture in the Massachusetts Bay. Demonstrating an impressive command of the vast literature and history of the period, Lisa Gordis moves deftly through discussions of major figures and events. This is a significant intervention in the study of Puritan New England."—Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame What role did the Bible really play in Puritan New England? Many have treated it as a blunt instrument used to cudgel dissenters into submission, but Lisa M. Gordis reveals instead that Puritan readings of the Bible showed great complexity and literary sophistication—so much complexity, in fact, that controversies over biblical interpretation threatened to tear Puritan society apart. Drawing on Puritan preaching manuals and sermons as well as the texts of early religious controversies, Gordis argues that Puritan ministers did not expect to impose their views on their congregations. Instead they believed that interpretive consensus would emerge from the process of reading the Bible, with the Holy Spirit assisting readers to understand God's will. Treating the conflict over Roger Williams, the Antinomian Controversy, and the reluctant compromises of the Halfway Covenant as symptoms of a crisis that was as much literary as it was social or spiritual, Opening Scripture explores the profound consequences of Puritan negotiations over biblical interpretation for New England's literature and history.

Book Conscience and Community

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew R. Murphy
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2015-11-05
  • ISBN : 0271075945
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Conscience and Community written by Andrew R. Murphy and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional emergence of toleration to find not a series of self-evident or logically connected expansions but instead a far more complex evolution. Murphy argues that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the actual historical development of toleration in theory and practice. Murphy approaches the concept through three "myths" about religious toleration: that it was opposed only by ignorant, narrow-minded persecutors; that it was achieved by skeptical Enlightenment rationalists; and that tolerationist arguments generalize easily from religion to issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, providing a basis for identity politics.

Book The Works of Simon Patrick  D D  Sometime Bishop of Ely  Including His Autobiography

Download or read book The Works of Simon Patrick D D Sometime Bishop of Ely Including His Autobiography written by Simon Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Symon Patrick  D D   Sometime Bishop of Ely  Including His Autobiography  Edited by     Alexander Taylor

Download or read book The Works of Symon Patrick D D Sometime Bishop of Ely Including His Autobiography Edited by Alexander Taylor written by Simon PATRICK (successively Bishop of Chichester and of Ely.) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Liberty of Conscience

Download or read book Liberty of Conscience written by Martha Craven Nussbaum and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of America's commitment to religious liberty uses political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases to discuss its basis in six principles: equality, respect for conscience, liberty, accommodation of minorities, nonestablishment, and separation of church and state.

Book Roger Williams  Prophet and Pioneer of Soul Liberty

Download or read book Roger Williams Prophet and Pioneer of Soul Liberty written by Arthur Barsazou Strickland and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roger Williams, Prophet and Pioneer of Soul-Liberty" by Arthur Barsazou Strickland. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book The New England Mind

Download or read book The New England Mind written by Perry Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution  1640 1661

Download or read book The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution 1640 1661 written by Carla Gardina Pestana and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam. By 1660, the English Atlantic emerged as religiously polarized, economically interconnected, socially exploitative, and ideologically anxious about its liberties. War increased both the proportion of unfree laborers and ethnic diversity in the settlements. Neglected by London, the colonies quickly developed trade networks, especially from seafaring New England, and entered the slave trade. Barbadian planters in particular moved decisively toward slavery as their premier labor system, leading the way toward its adoption elsewhere. When by the 1650s the governing authorities tried to impose their vision of an integrated empire, the colonists claimed the rights of freeborn English men, making a bid for liberties that had enormous implications for the rise in both involuntary servitude and slavery. Changes at home politicized religion in the Atlantic world and introduced witchcraft prosecutions. Pestana presents a compelling case for rethinking our assumptions about empire and colonialism and offers an invaluable look at the creation of the English Atlantic world.

Book A History of American Literature

Download or read book A History of American Literature written by Percy Holmes Boynton and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Creeds of Christendom  The history of creeds

Download or read book The Creeds of Christendom The history of creeds written by Philipp Schaff and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law and Religion in the Liberal State

Download or read book Law and Religion in the Liberal State written by Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between law and religion is evident throughout history. They have never been completely independent from each other. There is no doubt that religion has played an important role in providing the underlying values of modern laws, in setting the terms of the relationship between the individual and the state, and in demanding a space for the variety of intermediate institutions which stand between individuals and the state. However, the relationships between law and religion, and the state and religious institutions differ significantly from one modern state to another. There is not one liberalism but many. This work brings together reflections upon the relationship between religion and the law from the perspectives of different sub-traditions within the broader liberal project and in light of some contemporary problems in the accommodation of religious and secular authority.