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Religion and Its Reformation in America, Beginnings to 1730 - An Anthology of Primary Sources (Hardcover)
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Religion and Its Reformation in America, Beginnings to 1730 - An Anthology of Primary Sources (Hardcover)
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Beginning with a brief look at what the European colonists were
able to make of indigenous beliefs and practices, and ending in
1730athe year before the first published work of the Rev. Jonathan
Edwardsa Religion and Its Reformation in America seeks to highlight
the distinguishing features of Christianity in the first century of
its life in the colonies that would became the United States. The
transplanted Church of England in Virginia, the Catholicism of
Maryland, and, later on, the Quaker experience of Pennsylvania are
well represented, but the heaviest emphasis falls on the "Puritans"
of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Astonishingly, the leaders of a
migrant population produced a religious literature that, in both
quantity and intellectual acumen, is unmatched in any other
colonial venue on record. Drawing on an array of texts written on
the Continent, and in some cases on a personal experience of
Reformed churches abroad, these so-called Puritans sought a New
Church in a providentially provided New England. The general
outlines of their storyaend-time excitement, the establishment of a
radical new ecclesiology (which came to be known as
Congregationalism), second- and third-generation confusion and
compromise which yet refused to concede that their radicalism had
been a mistakeaare well known to historians who specialize in this
period. Presented here, however, for scholar and student alike, is
something approaching a full literary recordanot just names and
dates and creeds and platforms, but a rich human experience of
motive, energy, action, and affect. Religion to be sure, with
reform its driving forceabut also literature in its best sense,
eager to upend prevailing assumptions.
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