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Sympathetic Puritans - Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England (Hardcover)
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Sympathetic Puritans - Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England (Hardcover)
Series: Religion in America
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Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the
literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues
that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics,
religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars
have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct
challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears: the standard
history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy
and the Scottish Enlightenment, not Puritan New England. In
contrast, Van Engen's work unearths the pervasive presence of
sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts,
poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives. Sympathetic
Puritans also demonstrates how two types of sympathy - the active
command to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that
could indicate salvation (a discovery) - pervaded Puritan society
and came to define the very boundaries of English culture,
affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native
Americans, and the development of American literature. By analyzing
Puritan theology, preaching, prose, and poetry, Van Engen
re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives,
transatlantic relations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's
captivity narrative - and Puritan culture more generally - through
the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist
theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book
reveals the religious history of a concept that has largely been
associated with more secular roots.
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