Re-examining religious culture in 17th-century New England, Janice Knight discovers a contest of rival factions within the Puritan orthodoxy. Arguing that two distinctive strains of Puritan piety emerged in England prior to the migration to America, she describes a split between rationalism and mysticism, between theologies based on God's command and on God's love.
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Janice Knight is Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College, University of Chicago.
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Orthodoxies is Tedious,
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I had to read this book for a seminary course. If you're not an academic, don't even try reading it. It is laborious. I am already well-versed in Separatist and Puritan history and still found it tedious. Besides this,the author's thesis is on thin ice because only one orthodoxy emerges from Knight's writing except for hair splitting and subtle differences in doctrine.
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