The First American Evangelical : A Short Life of Cotton Mather.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Rick.

Series:

Library of Religious Biography (LRB) Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puritans--Massachusetts--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages)

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. The Last Decades of Puritan Boston

The Pastor's Study

Home School and Catechism

Ezekiel Cheever and the Latin School

2. Cambridge: City of Books in the Republic of Letters

Saving Harvard

The Bible in Logick

Stammerer in the Library

The Eclectic American Scholar

3. Listening for a Call

Closure with the Lord Jesus Christ

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

Angelic Encounters

Accepting Vocations

Healer of Whole Persons

Historian of Demon Possession

4. Entanglements of Church and State

Friendships, Fellowship, and Neighbors

April 18, 1689: Eleutherians in Revolt

The Protestant Interest

The Devil in Salem

The Levitation of Margaret Rule

American Historian and Boston Ebenezer

5. The Birth of the American Evangelical Tradition

The Evangelical Interest Tugs at the Protestant Interest

An All

Day

Long Faith

Charles Morton, the Spirit of Man, and Sanctification

"God Threw My Daughter in the Fire"

Thwarted from the Presidency of Harvard

6. A Biblical Enlightenment

Defining "Enlightenment"

Eat This Book

Was Nebuchadnezzar a Werewolf?

Humanitarian Acts and Institutions, Freedom, and Liberty

"The Month That Devoured My Family"

7. The Practice at the Top of Christianity

Winter Piety

An Accomplished Singer

A Burning Bush

Acknowledgments and Bibliography

The Cotton Mather Trail: A Walking Tour in Boston Connected to the Freedom Trail

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Kennedy, Rick The First American Evangelical

ISBN:

9781467443104

OCLC:

988872429