Cotton Mather : The Young Life of the Lord's Remembrancer, 1663-1703 / David Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clergy--Massachusetts--Biography.

Clergy.

Congregational churches--Clergy--Biography.

Congregational churches.

HISTORY / United States / General.

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.

Local Subjects:

Congregational churches--Clergy--Biography.

HISTORY / United States / General.

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.): 1 Frontispiz

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reinterprets the life and thought of the controversial Puritan New England clergyman, examining his religious conversion, his role as an historian and literary figure, and his fanatical attitudes concerning witchcraft.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Note on the Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Quotations

I. A Covenanted Childhood

II. Harvard College

III. The Call of the Gospel and the Loss of the Charter

IV. From Vision to Bereavement

V. Witchcraft and Revolution

VI. Struggling toward the Millennium: War, Smallpox, Witchcraft

VII. Two Brands, Two Deaths, and a Sadducee

VIII. The Lord's Remembrancer: The Value of Historical Uncertainty

IX. Suffering and Doing: The Mystery of Particular Faiths and Deaths

NOTES INDEX

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-43101-4

OCLC:

1013948045