The Protestant interest : New England after Puritanism / Thomas S. Kidd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kidd, Thomas S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestantism--New England--History--18th century.

Protestantism.

New England--Church history--18th century.

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 212 p.))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740's. This engrossing book explores the religious history of New England during the period and offers new reasons for this change in cultural identity. After England's Glorious Revolution, says Thomas Kidd, New Englanders abandoned their previous hostility toward Britain, viewing it as the chosen leader in the Protestant fight against world Catholicism. They also imagined themselves part of an international Protestant community and replaced their Puritan beliefs with a revival-centered pan-Protestantism. Kidd discusses the rise of "the Protestant interest" and provides a compelling argument about the origins of both eighteenth-century revivalism and the global evangelical movement.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: ''Fidelity to Christ and to the Protestant Succession'' Benjamin Colman and the Protestant Interest

Chapter Two: ''Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst'' World News, the Catholic Threat, and International Protestantism

Chapter Three: Protestants, Popery, and Prognostications New England Almanacs

Chapter Four: ''The Devil and Father Rallee'' Narrating Father Rale's War

Chapter Five: ''The Madness of the Jacobite Party'' Imagining a High-Church Jacobite Threat

Chapter Six: ''The Dawning of that Sabbath of Rest Promised to the People of God'' Eschatology and Identity

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-205) and index.

ISBN:

9786611721947

9781281721945

1281721948

9780300128406

0300128401

OCLC:

1024006296