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Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England (Paperback)
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Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold
that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans.
In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking
thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and
metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts
and fears, feelings created by their particular cultural situation
and aroused by the crucial social events of seventeenth-century
America. In his early chapters, the author defines the
psychological needs of the second- and third-generation Puritans,
arguing that these needs arose from the generational conflict
between the founders and their children and from the methods of
child rearing and religious education employed in Puritan New
England. In the later chapters, he reveals how the ministers
responded to the crisis in their society by reshaping theology and
constructing in their sermons a religious language that helped to
fulfill the most urgent psychological needs of the people.
Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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