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The precisianist strain : disciplinary religion & antinomian backlash in Puritanism to 1638 / Theodore Dwight Bozeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bozeman, Theodore Dwight, 1942- author.
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puritans--England.
- Puritans.
- Antinomianism--Massachusetts--History of doctrines--17th century.
- Antinomianism.
- Puritans--Massachusetts.
- Antinomianism--England--History of doctrines--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; London, [England] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification.The word Puritan, he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline.
- Contents:
- Disciplinary themes in the English Reformation
- Disciplinary themes of the Presbyterian movement
- Discipline as stabilizer in shifting times
- Richard Greenham and the first Protestant pietism
- Piety and self-management after Richard Greenham
- Introspection and self-control
- Cases of conscience
- More piety and more doubt
- Taking stock : piety's gains and costs
- John Eaton and the antinomian first wave
- John Cotton : antinomian adumbrations
- John Cotton in America : hypocrisy and crisis
- John Cotton in America : transcendent gifts and operations
- John Cotton and the American antinomians
- The construction of American antinomianism.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908773-1-4
- 1-4696-0102-8
- OCLC:
- 966771247
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