Tenacious of Their Liberties : The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts.
Title:
Tenacious of Their Liberties : The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts.
Author:
Cooper, James F. Jr.
ISBN:
9780195354393
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Series:
Religion in America
Contents:
Contents -- Abbreviations and Editorial Policies -- Introduction -- 1. The Implementation of the Congregational Way -- 2. "A Mixed Form": Clerical Authority and Lay Liberty -- 3. Lay "Rebellion" and Clerical Reaction: Antinomianism and Its Aftermath -- 4. The Presbyterian Challenge -- 5. Congregationalism in Crisis: The Halfway Covenant -- 6. An Uneasy Balance -- 7. Declension and Reform -- 8. Clerical Conflict and the Decline of Sola Scriptura -- 9. Perpetuation and Disintegration -- 10. The Great Awakening and the Privatization of Piety -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This study approaches the Puritan experience from the perspective of the pew rather than the pulpit. For the past decade, Cooper has immersed himself in local Massachusetts manuscript church records. From these previously untapped documents, he brings forth forgotten events and personages in a book that both challenges exisiting models of church hierarchy and offers a new understanding of the origins of New England democracy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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