Antinomian Controversy, 1636?1638 : A Documentary History (2nd Edition).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, David D., Editor.

Contributor:

Hall, David D., Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antinomianism--History of doctrines--17th century--Massachusetts.

Antinomianism.

Puritans--History--17th century.

Puritans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 p.)

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Antinomian controversy—a seventeenth-century theological crisis concerning salvation—was the first great intellectual crisis in the settlement of New England. Transcending the theological questions from which it arose, this symbolic controversy became a conflict between power and freedom of conscience. David D. Hall’s thorough documentary history of this episode sheds important light on religion, society, and gender in early American history.This new edition of the 1968 volume, published now for the first time in paperback, includes an expanding bibliography and a new preface, treating in more detail the prime figures of Anne Hutchinson and her chief clerical supporter, John Cotton. Among the documents gathered here are transcripts of Anne Hutchinson’s trial, several of Cotton’s writings defending the Antinomian position, and John Winthrop’s account of the controversy. Hall’s increased focus on Hutchinson reveals the harshness and excesses with which the New England ministry tried to discredit her and reaffirms her place of prime importance in the history of American women.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the second edition

Notes to the second edition

Introduction

1 Letters between Thomas Shepard and John Cotton

2 Peter Bulkeley and John Cotton: on union with Christ

3 John Cotton, Sixteene questions of serious and necessary consequence

4 The elders reply

5 Mr. Cottons Rejoynder

6 John Wheelwright, a fast-day sermon

7 John Cotton, a conference _ .. held at Boston

8 John Winthrop, a short story of the rise, reign, and ruine of the antinomians, familists &- libertines

9 The examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the court at Newtown

10 A report of the trial of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson before the church in Boston

11 Proceedings of the Boston church against the exiles

12 John Cotton, the way of congregational churches cleared

A note on the transcription of manuscripts

Bibliographical note

A selective bibliography of recent work

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)

ISBN:

9780822398288

0822398281

OCLC:

1229161668