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The Long Argument - English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Long Argument - English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in
England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the
end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a
cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement,
Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the
Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its
English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of
current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original
and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster,
Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of
progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble,
who never decided whether they were the vanguard or the remnant.
Indeed, in Foster's analysis, changes in New England Puritanism
after the first decades of settlement did not indicate
secularization and decline but instead were part of a pattern of
change, conflict, and accomodation that had begun in England. He
views the Puritans' own claims of declension as partisan
propositions in an internal controversy as old as the Puritan
movement itself. The result of these stresses and adaptations, he
argues, was continued vitality in American Puritanism during the
second half of the seventeenth century. Foster draws insights from
a broad range of souces in England and America, including sermons,
diaries, spiritual autobiographies, and colony, town, and court
records. Moreover, his presentation of the history of the English
and American Puritan movements in tandem brings out the fatal flaws
of the former as well as the modest but essential strengths of the
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