[PDF.90dm] Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea

Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea

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 | #911716 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  1965-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.38 x.51 x5.94l,.39 | File type: PDF | 159 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Fundamental reading on American Puritanism|By Stephen Roop|In just a few bold strokes, Morgan manages to outline how American Puritanism is embedded in English Puritanism and how, nonetheless, it also differs. Some readers may consider this difference as progress, others may not. But it is well, decades after this book first came out, to remember the embedding. Americans stu| ||"Although he does not pretend to deal 'exhaustively' with the subject, Professor Morgan leaves. few aspects untouched. Throughout, we are presented with thoughtful, original scholarship and with a skillful reinterpretation of a Puritan idea."―New Englan

Through a richly detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and America, Professor Morgan offers an important reinterpretation of a pivotal era in New England history.

Historians have generally supposed that the main outlines of the Puritan church were determined in England and Holland and transplanted to the new world. The author convincingly suggests, instead, that the distinguishing charact...

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