Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England (eBook)

Emory Elliott (Autor)

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2015
254 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6820-9 (ISBN)

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For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts and fears, feelings created by their particular cultural situation and aroused by the crucial social events of seventeenth-century America. In his early chapters, the author defines the psychological needs of the second- and third-generation Puritans, arguing that these needs arose from the generational conflict between the founders and their children and from the methods of child rearing and religious education employed in Puritan New England. In the later chapters, he reveals how the ministers responded to the crisis in their society by reshaping theology and constructing in their sermons a religious language that helped to fulfill the most urgent psychological needs of the people.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Absalom • anne hutchinson • Antichrist • Antinomian controversy • Antinomianism • Apostasy • Apparitions (TV series) • arminianism • Believers (Babylon 5) • Bible • blood of Christ • Book of Revelation • Books of Kings • books of Samuel • Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) • Catechism • Christian Church • Christian theology • Church covenant • church discipline • Church of England • congregational church • Cotton Mather • Covenant Theology • crucifixion of Jesus • Divine right of kings • Epigram • Exaltation (Mormonism) • Excommunication • Exegesis • Foxe's Book of Martyrs • God • God Knows (novel) • God The Father • Half-Way Covenant • Hebrews • Heresy • Iconoclasm • Image of God • increase mather • infidel • Institutes of the Christian Religion • jeremiad • Jihad • John Calvin • John Davenport (minister) • John Higginson (minister) • Joshua Scottow • Magnalia Christi Americana • Manifest Destiny • Michael Wigglesworth • Nathaniel William Taylor • New England • New England theology • New Nation (United States) • Of Plymouth Plantation • Old Testament • Pastor • Patriarchs (Bible) • Patriarchy • Person of Christ • plymouth colony • predestination • Preface (liturgy) • Premarital sex • Prophecy • Province of Massachusetts Bay • Puritans • rebuke • Religion • Religious Conversion • Religious education • religious experience • richard mather • Rudolf Bultmann • Salem witch trials • samuel eliot morison • Samuel Sewall • Samuel Willard • Sermon • Solomon Stoddard • sons of God • Spiritual autobiography • synod • The Day of Doom • Theology • The Pursuit of the Millennium • The Trial of God • Thomas Hooker • Thomas Prince • Thomas Shepard (minister) • Typology (Theology) • Voice Of God • William Ames • William Hubbard (clergyman) • William Perkins (theologian) • William Sargant • William Stoughton (judge) • Writing • Yale University Press
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6820-3 / 1400868203
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6820-9 / 9781400868209