Godly republicanism : Puritans, pilgrims, and a city on a hill / Michael P. Winship.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winship, Michael P. (Michael Paul)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state.

History.

Republicanism.

Protestantism.

Church history.

Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--Church history--17th century.

Puritans--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Puritans.

Protestantism--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Republicanism--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Church and state--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Puritans--England--History--16th century.

England.

Puritans--England--History--17th century.

Church and state--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Church and state--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

339 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Winship (history, U. of Georgia) explores the government and ecclesiastical republicanism, created by the Puritans in Massachusetts in the 1630s, of twinned religious and civic institutions, which were both formed in ways that were intended to invest greater power in, respectively, the laity and the people. He begins his narrative in England, presenting chapters examining the role of Elizabethan radical puritans in connecting their republican church forms to the project of national reformation, the common origins of Elizabethan separatism and Presbyterianism and their later divergence in forms of church governance, and the responses of the separatists and the Presbyterians to the hostility of James I. He then crosses the Atlantic and discusses the long-term impact of the separatist Plymouth colony on religious and civic governance in Massachusetts, before returning to England and considering the influence of this Atlantic republican tradition on mid-17th-century English religious and political upheavals. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction : an old man's tears for godly republicanism

The rise and bleeding fall of Elizabethan godly republicanism

The separatist beginnings of Congregationalism and Presbyterianism

James I and a new crisis of antichristian power

The triumphs and trials of the Lord's free people

Christian liberty at Plymouth Plantation

Separatism at Salem?

The appeal of Massachusetts Congregationalism

Designing a godly republic

A city on a hill

Godly republicanism's apocalypse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-330) and index.

ISBN:

9780674063853

0674063856

OCLC:

741354960