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Observing that intellectual changes within late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts Puritan culture closely paralleled changes within Puritan culture in England, Michael Winship re-examines one of the more nettlesome issues in the intellectual history of early New England. How did the logic of Puritanism square itself with the increasingly hostile assumptions of the early Enlightenment? And, faced with a new intellectual world whose parameters were formed to a large extent in opposition to Puritanism, how did Puritans try to maintain credibility? In Seers of God, Winship's compelling analysis of topics ranging from theology to witchcraft places the problem of intellectual change fully in a transatlantic context.
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"Winship's sophisticated and compelling study of Puritan providentialism in Massachusetts during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries examines the impact of cultural politics in Restoration England on New England's intellectual history and sheds new light on the ways in which Puritan thinkers responded to the imperatives of the early Enlightenment." -- William and Mary Quarterly
"This is an impressive book. It explores with subtlety one of those fascinating moments when the intricate connections between a certain kind of religious discourse shades into that outlook we connect with the Enlightenment, and discloses how rooted was the English Enlightenment in certain matters of theological discussion. As an exploration into a mentality, it is a test case in the analysis of 'Weberian disenchantment' and of a society struggling with cognitive disonance... Winship is especially strong in clarifying the political use of disenchantment and the political meaning of reason for Restoration Anglicans -- seldom has a theological shift in its political context been so clearly delineated." -- Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., American Studies International
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Observing that intellectual changes within late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts Puritan culture closely paralleled changes within Puritan culture in England, Michael Winship re-examines one of the more nettlesome issues in the intellectual history of early New England. How did the logic of Puritanism square itself with the increasingly hostile assumptions of the early Enlightenment? And, faced with a new intellectual world whose parameters were formed to a large extent in opposition to Puritanism, how did Puritans try to maintain credibility? In Seers of God, Winship's compelling analysis of topics ranging from theology to witchcraft places the problem of intellectual change fully in a transatlantic context.
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Puritans had a term for the inexorable power they felt to be working within them and without them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
providential sensibility, illustrious providences, provoking sins, reasonable religion, supernatural economy, providential interpretation, polite part, older ministers, election sermons, younger ministers, learned culture, national judgments, remarkable providences, friendly debate, extraordinary interventions, judicial astrology, mechanical philosophy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Cotton Mather, Royal Society, The Christian Philosopher, Increase Mather, Holy Spirit, Church of England, Surey Demoniack, King Philip's War, Civil Wars, Anne Hutchinson, John Cotton, Brattle Street Church, Old Testament, Biblia Americana, Restoration England, Benjamin Colman, English Dissenters, Great Awakening, John Calvin, John Leverett, Massachusetts Puritans, Memorable Providences, Restoration Anglicans, Richard Baxter New!
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Puritans had a term for the inexorable power they felt to be working within them and without them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
providential sensibility, illustrious providences, provoking sins, reasonable religion, supernatural economy, providential interpretation, polite part, older ministers, election sermons, younger ministers, learned culture, national judgments, remarkable providences, friendly debate, extraordinary interventions, judicial astrology, mechanical philosophy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Cotton Mather, Royal Society, The Christian Philosopher, Increase Mather, Holy Spirit, Church of England, Surey Demoniack, King Philip's War, Civil Wars, Anne Hutchinson, John Cotton, Brattle Street Church, Old Testament, Biblia Americana, Restoration England, Benjamin Colman, English Dissenters, Great Awakening, John Calvin, John Leverett, Massachusetts Puritans, Memorable Providences, Restoration Anglicans, Richard Baxter New!
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- The New England Mind: From Colony to Province by Perry Miller on 9 pages
- Cotton Mather by R. Lovelace on 8 pages
- Reasonable Religion (Notable American Authors) by Cotton Mather on 6 pages
- The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman on 5 pages
- Remarkable Providences by Increase Mather on 5 pages
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- Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century New England (Early America: History, Context, Culture) by Professor Erik R. Seeman PhD in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World : Massachusetts Merchants, 1670 1780 by Phyllis Whitman Hunter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America by James Delbourgo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England by Teresa A. Toulouse in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction by Gary B. Ferngren on page 117, and page 129
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