This study offers a new interpretation of the Puritan "Antinomian" controversy and a skillful analysis of its wider and long term social and cultural significance. Breen argues that controversy both reflected and fostered larger questions of identity that would persist in Puritan New England during the 17th century. Some issues discussed here include the existence of individualism in a society that valued conformity and the response of members of an inward-looking, localistic culture to those among them of a more "cosmopolitan" nature. Central to Breen's study is the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, an elite social club that attracted a heterogeneous yet prominent membership, and whose diversity contrasted with the social and religious ideals of the cultural majority.
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"Breen has identified a general pattern that is a useful guidepost for reading the actions, decisions, and changing alliances of Bay Colony leadership. In bringing these individuals to our attention, she has provided an illuminating window onto New England as a developing, ratehr than static, or stagnant, colonial area."-- The Journal of Religion
"This is a well-researched, nicely written and carefully thought out volume that makes it clear that there is more to be said about the Puritans. Breenis convincing in her argument that some of them were not so different from the rest of American colonists."--The Historian
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Louise A. Breen is at Kansas State University.
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In November 1637, at the height of the Bay Colony's antinomian controversy, magistrate Israel Stoughton proved an unlikely ally of Anne Hutchinson. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, King Philip's War, Daniel Gookin, John Winthrop, John Underhill, Anne Hutchinson, New Netherland, John Leverett, Artillery Company, First Church, United Colonies, Edward Hutchinson, Christian Indians, Long Island, Pequot War, Hugh Peter, Vincent Gookin, West Indies, Robert Sedgwick, Thomas Shepard, John Eliot, Nova Scotia, Edward Gibbons, New Haven, Rhode Island New!
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In November 1637, at the height of the Bay Colony's antinomian controversy, magistrate Israel Stoughton proved an unlikely ally of Anne Hutchinson. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, King Philip's War, Daniel Gookin, John Winthrop, John Underhill, Anne Hutchinson, New Netherland, John Leverett, Artillery Company, First Church, United Colonies, Edward Hutchinson, Christian Indians, Long Island, Pequot War, Hugh Peter, Vincent Gookin, West Indies, Robert Sedgwick, Thomas Shepard, John Eliot, Nova Scotia, Edward Gibbons, New Haven, Rhode Island New!
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- Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by John Frederick Martin on 4 pages
- The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (2nd Edition) by Edmund S. Morgan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father by Francis J. Bremer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) by Theodore Dwight Bozeman on page 233, and Back Matter
- A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy by Jonathan D. Sassi in Front Matter
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