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The Mathers : three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596-1728 / Robert Middlekauff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 440 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520923119
  • 0520923111
  • 0585079102
  • 9780585079103
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mathers.DDC classification:
  • 285/.8/0922744 B 21
LOC classification:
  • F67.M47 M53 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Notes -- Preface -- Contents -- BOOK ONE. RICHARD MATHER (1596-1669): HISTORY -- BOOK TWO. INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723): TYPOLOGY -- BOOK THREE. COTTON MATHER (1663-1728): PROPHECY -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers--Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather--in order to challenge the traditional telling of the secularization of Puritanism, a story of faith transformed by reason, science, and business. Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and uncompromising than traditional accounts have allowed. At the same time, he portrays changing ideas and patterns of behavior that reveal much about the first hundred years of American life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-427) and index.

Print version record.

Frontmatter -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Notes -- Preface -- Contents -- BOOK ONE. RICHARD MATHER (1596-1669): HISTORY -- BOOK TWO. INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723): TYPOLOGY -- BOOK THREE. COTTON MATHER (1663-1728): PROPHECY -- Notes -- Index

In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers--Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather--in order to challenge the traditional telling of the secularization of Puritanism, a story of faith transformed by reason, science, and business. Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and uncompromising than traditional accounts have allowed. At the same time, he portrays changing ideas and patterns of behavior that reveal much about the first hundred years of American life.

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