This description of the Americanization of a European institution,
the Puritan ministry as it was transported to the New England
colonies in the seventeenth century, offers a host of new insights
into American religious history. By focusing on such areas as the
ministers' authority, church membership, and ecclesiastical
organization, David D. Hall shows that, although the effects of the
American experience might be considered liberalizing or
democratizing in the first years of settlement, during the entire
course of the seventeenth century the New World environment
produced an institutional development that returned the churches to
forms and doctrines that existed before the emigration from Europe.
"The Faithful Shepherd" not only sustains a bold thesis about
Americanization but also affords the reader one of the freshest and
most comprehensive histories of the seventeenth-century New England
mind and society. This new printing contains a new introduction
reflecting on how our understanding of seventeenth-century New
England has developed since the book was first published.
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