Puritanism and Its DiscontentsLaura Lunger Knoppers University of Delaware Press, 2003 - 264 Seiten "This volume works to restore both a radical edge and a new specificity to the much-debated definitions of Puritans and Puritanism. Ranging from the 1622 election of a new master at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to Oliver Cromwell's self-fashioning, to uses of the Turk in anti-Puritan polemic, to Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian crisis, the ten essays offer a detailed account of the intersection of religion, politics, and culture in England and America in the seventeenth century and beyond. Each essay shows how a dynamic and shifting Puritanism is constructed in and through conflict, and how a radical impulse to discontent is part of Puritan self-identity. Such work also counters the long-standing and still popular notion of Puritanism as, like Freud's civilization, a repressive and monolithic entity, obsessed with guilt and generating neuroses. Rather, the essays show that discontents are not simply a response to Puritans but an integral part of the definition of Puritanism itself." "Focusing on new topics in cultural history - discursive constructions, institutions, and community - contributors to this volume explore how discontents shape a complex Puritanism in England and America. The collection expands the boundaries of the study of Puritanism to include lay experience, women, popular print, and questions of class structure, ethnicity, and gender. By tracing core discontents, the essays restore the anxiety-ridden radical nature of Puritanism, helping to account for its force in the seventeenth century and the popular and scholarly interest that it continues to evoke. Innovative and challenging in scope and argument, the volume should be of interest to scholars of early modern British and American history, literature, culture, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Inhalt
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A Liberation Theology? Aspects of Puritanism in the English Revolution | 27 |
Uses of Puritan 162540 | 49 |
Matthew Arnolds Construction of Puritanism | 67 |
AntiCalvinists and the Republican Threat in Early Stuart Cambridge | 85 |
The Constraints of a Puritan Institution | 106 |
Mary Chudleighs The Song of the Three Children Paraphrased | 122 |
PuritanIndian Discourse in Early New England | 145 |
Images of the Turk in AntiPuritan Polemic | 167 |
Assurance Community and the Puritan Self in the Antinomian Controversy 163638 | 197 |
Cotton Mathers Magnalia Christi Americana | 210 |
Bibliography | 231 |
Contributors | 255 |
Index | 258 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American Antinomian Antinomian Controversy Arminian biblical bishops Bunyan Calvin Calvinist Cambridge University Press century Chaderton Charles Christ Christian Chudleigh Church of England civil Clarendon Press Cosin Cotton Mather Cromwell's cultural David diary discontent Dissent divine doctrine Dorislaus's Early Modern Early Stuart England ecclesiastical edited Eliot Emmanuel College Emmanuel fellows English Civil War English Puritanism English Revolution essay faith God's Harvard University Press historians History Ibid Indians Islam John Milton John Morrill king language of imitation Laud Laud's Laudian Laurence Chaderton lecture letter liberty London Magnalia Massachusetts Matthew Arnold Milton ministers monarchy Montagu natives nonconformists nonconformity Oliver Cromwell Oxford University Press Parliament poem polemic political popular Preston Protestant Prynne Puri Puritan radical Reformation regicide Religion religious republican Restoration Richard ritan sermon seventeenth seventeenth-century social soul spirit story Studies suggests term Puritan theological Thomas Thomas Sydenham tion Turk Turkish Turkish tyranny Tyacke Victorian William Dowsing Wren York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 43 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are : for blood it defileth the land : and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Seite 45 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Seite 44 - And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Seite 44 - Excellency and all we that are under you, ' may discern ' what the mind of God may be in all this, and what our duty is. Surely it is not that the poor Godly People of this Kingdom should still be made the object of wrath and anger ; nor that our God would have our necks under a yoke of bondage. For these things that have lately come to pass have been the wonderful works of God ; breaking the rod of the oppressor, as in the day of Midian, — not with garments much rolled in blood, but by the terror...
Seite 72 - For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
Seite 74 - The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines.
Seite 40 - Blackness: yet the Lord forsaketh me not. Though He do prolong, yet He will I trust bring me to His tabernacle, to His resting-place.
Seite 73 - But what was it, this liberalism, as Dr. Newman saw it, and as it really broke the Oxford movement? It was the great middle-class liberalism, which had for the cardinal points of its belief the Reform Bill of 1832, and local self-government, in politics; in the social sphere, free-trade, unrestricted competition, and the making of large industrial fortunes; in the religious sphere, the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Seite 74 - For Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children, and therein it specially suits our middle class, who not only do not pursue sweetness and light, but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business, chapels, tea-meetings, and addresses from Mr. Murphy, which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched.
Seite 59 - Whosoever squares his actions by any rule, either divine or human, he is a puritan : whosoever would be governed by the king's laws, he is a puritan.