The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society.
In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and
development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town
and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New
Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes
into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New
England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of
seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of
early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few
famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows
covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for
society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state
relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial
governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that
New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less
"American" than has often been thought, and that the New England
colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old
England.
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