Through a richly detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and
decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England
and America, Professor Morgan offers an important reinterpretation
of a pivotal era in New England history.
Historians have generally supposed that the main outlines of the
Puritan church were determined in England and Holland and
transplanted to the new world. The author convincingly suggests,
instead, that the distinguishing characteristic of the New England
churches the ideal of a church composed exclusively of true and
tested saints developed fully only in the 1630's and 1640's, some
time after the first settlers arrived in New England. He also
examines the influence of the Separatist colony at Plymouth on the
later settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and follows the
difficulties created by a definition of the religious community so
selective that the New England churches nearly expired for lack of
saints to fill them."
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