The New England Soul : Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England

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Throughout the colonial era, New England's only real public spokesmen were the Congregational ministers. One result is that the ideological origins of the American Revolution are nowhere more clearly seen than in the sermons they preached. The New England Soul is the first comprehensive analysis of preaching in New England from the founding of the Puritan colonies to the outbreak of the Revolution. Using a multi-disciplinary approach--including analysis of rhetorical style and concept of identity and community--Stout examines more than two thousand sermons spanning five generations of ministers, including such giants of the pulpit as John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Increase and Cotton Mather, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Mayhew, and Charles Chauncy. Equally important, however, are the manuscript sermons of many lesser known ministers, which never appeared in print. By integrating the sermons of ordinary ministers with the printed sermons of their more illustrious contemporaries, Stout reconstructs the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes, and explicated history and society to the New England Puritans for one and a half centuries.
 

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The Institutional Setting of the Sermon
13
Regular Preaching and the Sequence of Salvation
32
Sions OutCasts
50
Days of Trouble and Thankful Remembrances
67
The Conversion of the Children
86
Anglicization
127
Regular Preaching and the New Pietism
148
Israels Constitution
166
Awakening
185
A New Balance
212
War
233
Trust in God
259
A Nation Born at Once
282
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