TY  - BOOK
AU  - Middlekauff,Robert
TI  - The Mathers: three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596-1728 
SN  - 9780520923119
AV  - F67.M47 M53 1999eb
U1  - 285/.8/0922744B 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Mather, Richard,
KW  - Mather, Increase,
KW  - Mather, Cotton,
KW  - Puritans
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Biography
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Presbyterian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - General
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - fast
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-427) and index; 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
N2  - 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 Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and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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