Puritan Origins

Rowe, John Carlos (Herausgeber:in) / Gura, Philip F. (Autor:in)

A Concise Companion to American Studies ; 17-35

16.04.2010

18 pages

9781405109246 , 9781444319071

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444319071.ch1

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

primacy of New England's “principles” ‐ and founding of the New Nation , much‐ballyhooed ‐ bicentennial of the Pilgrims' landfall at Plymouth , New England Puritanism, undeniably shaping the American “mind” , Orthodoxy in Massachusetts ‐ significance of covenant theology to Massachusetts Bay Puritans , Puritan ideas ‐ and what Matthiessen terms the “American Renaissance” , Kenneth Ballard Murdock's Increase Mather: Foremost American Puritan ‐ revising understanding of American Puritanism , turn of the century, Puritanism ‐ becoming butt of severe criticism and caustic humor , Miller's formulation of Puritanism and its centrality ‐ formation of American mind , Puritan origins ‐ linkage of colonial New England to nation's origins , “Social Gospel,” ‐ adherents believing that Christian principles must be applied to social problems