Perry Miller's classic one-volume anthology of Puritan writings recreates the world of seventeenth-century New England through a judicious selection of tracts, journals, sermons, and poetry by the major Puritan writers: William Bradford, Cotton Mather, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, and Edward Taylor among them.
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The American Puritan movement is the essential starting point for all considerations of American culture and no book in print provides a better introduction to it than does this one.
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Perry Miller -- who, regardless of what the credit on top says, was not the photographer in this pictureless collection, but the editor -- was the twentieth century's most towering colonial historian. Terrifying generation after generation of graduate students at Harvard, Miller was one of those people who knew absolutely everything about his subject: the American Puritans. A confirmed atheist, Miller spent his life exploring the lives of the most religious of all American groups. This anthology, which has been in print for the better part of half-a-century, is still the basic introduction to the subject in most schools. Taking excerpts on all the most important subjects, Miller introduces each with his own framework of ideas and connections; although the ellipses can come to annoy once you really get into the subject, there is still no good substitute for this collection. Indispensable to anybody wanting the primary texts of that most influential of all religious groups in America, the Puritans.
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[The Puritans acquired their name because they were English Protestants who in the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries were resolved to "purify" the Church of England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
greatest sufficiency, warrantable calling, ride therein, thy calling, created agents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madam Winthrop, Cotton Mather, John Cotton, General Court, Holy Ghost, Church of England, John Winthrop, Increase Mather, Massachusetts Bay, Lord Jesus Christ, Solomon Stoddard, Thomas Hooker, Thomas Shepard, Harvard College, John Wise, New Haven, New Testament, Old Testament, Anne Bradstreet, Christ Jesus, David Jeffries, Benjamin Franklin, Emmanuel College, Great Migration, King James New!
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[The Puritans acquired their name because they were English Protestants who in the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries were resolved to "purify" the Church of England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
greatest sufficiency, warrantable calling, ride therein, thy calling, created agents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madam Winthrop, Cotton Mather, John Cotton, General Court, Holy Ghost, Church of England, John Winthrop, Increase Mather, Massachusetts Bay, Lord Jesus Christ, Solomon Stoddard, Thomas Hooker, Thomas Shepard, Harvard College, John Wise, New Haven, New Testament, Old Testament, Anne Bradstreet, Christ Jesus, David Jeffries, Benjamin Franklin, Emmanuel College, Great Migration, King James New!
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- Day of Doom by Wigglesworth on page 282, page 294, and page 303
- Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford on page 5, and page 36
- Errand into the Wilderness by Perry Miller in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Tenth Muse (1650) and, from the manuscripts, Meditations Divine and Morall together with Letters and Occasional Pieces by Anne Bradstreet on page 266, and Back Matter
- The American Transcendentalists by Professor Perry Miller in Front Matter
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- Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord: Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655 (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Timothy L. Wood on 5 pages
- Justice and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by E. Clinton Gardner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies by Geoff King in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855: Changing Perceptions of Childhood (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Nancy Hathaway Steenburg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Against the Protestant Gnostics by Philip J. Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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