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The first American evangelical : a short life of Cotton Mather / Rick Kennedy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Rick, 1958-
- Series:
- Library of religious biography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
- Mather, Cotton.
- Puritans--Massachusetts--Biography.
- Puritans.
- Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- History.
- Evangelicalism--United States--History.
- Evangelicalism.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 162 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2015]
- Summary:
- Cotton Mather [1663-1728] was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People mm today generally associate him only with the infamous Salem mm witch trials, but in this biography Rick Kennedy sets the record straight about Mather, telling the story of how this brilliant leader actually was the very first American evangelical. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Last Decades of Puritan Boston, 1663-1674 1
- The Pastor's Study 1
- Home School and Catechism 5
- Ezekiel Cheever and the Latin School 12
- 2 Cambridge: City of Books in the Republic of Letters, 1674-1681 15
- Saving Harvard 15
- The Bible in Logick 19
- Stammerer in the Library 23
- The Eclectic American Scholar 27
- 3 Listening for a Call, 1681-1688 30
- Closure with the Lord Jesus Christ 30
- A Long Obedience in the Same Direction 31
- Angelic Encounters 32
- Accepting Vocations 35
- Healer of Whole Persons 38
- Historian of Demon Possession 41
- 4 Entanglements of Church and State, 1688-1698 47
- Friendships, Fellowship, and Neighbors 47
- April 18, 1689: Eleutherians in Revolt 52
- The Protestant Interest 58
- The Devil in Salem 63
- The Levitation of Margaret Rule 67
- American Historian and Boston Ebenezer 72
- 5 The Birth of the American Evangelical Tradition, 1698-1707 78
- The Evangelical Interest Tugs at the Protestant Interest 78
- An All-Day-Long Faith 87
- Charles Morton, the Spirit of Man, and Sanctification 91
- "God Threw My Daughter in the Fire" 94
- Thwarted from the Presidency of Harvard 98
- 6 A Biblical Enlightenment, 1707-1713 106
- Defining "Enlightenment" 106
- Eat This Book 108
- Was Nebuchadnezzar a Werewolf? 116
- Humanitarian Acts and Institutions, Freedom, and Liberty 123
- "The Month That Devoured My Family" 127
- 7 The Practice at the Top of Christianity, 1713-1728 130
- Winter Piety 130
- An Accomplished Singer 137
- A Burning Bush 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802872115
- 9780802872111
- OCLC:
- 887852066
- Publisher Number:
- 99963793270
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