The practice of piety : Puritan devotional disciplines in seventeenth-century New England / Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hambrick-Stowe, Charles E., author.

Contributor:

Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Series:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritual life--Christianity--History of doctrines--17th century.

Spiritual life.

Puritans--New England.

Puritans.

New England--Religious life and customs.

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Summary:

A moving and vivid account of what it meant to be a Puritan, this account draws on diaries, spiritual biographies, and devotional manuals to explore the daily and weekly ritual and discipline. The devotional movement was at the heart of Puritanism, and the spiritual pilgrimage was the soul's progress from birth to death to rebirth and eternal glory. Puritan worship brought together college student and illiterate farmer, giving coherence to the community.

Contents:

New England devotional practice: four vignettes

"The better part: heart religion"

Puritan as pilgrim

The ordinances of public worship

Private devotion: neighborhood, family, conference

Private devotion: secret exercises

Pilgrimage as preparation

"The travelling interest of Christ in this wilderness": the devotional crisis of the second generation

The Puritan contemplative.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890864505

9798890864512

9781469600048

1469600048

9781469611310

1469611317

OCLC:

1082876038