Orthodoxies in Massachusetts

Auteur: Knight, Janice
Editeur: Harvard University Press
Reexamining religious culture in 17th-century New England, Knight discovers a contest of rival factions within Puritan orthodoxy. Arguing that two distinctive strains of Puritan piety emerged in England prior to migration to America, she describes splits between rationalism and mysticism, between theologies based on God's command and on God's love.
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Reexamining religious culture in 17th-century New England, Knight discovers a contest of rival factions within Puritan orthodoxy. Arguing that two distinctive strains of Puritan piety emerged in England prior to migration to America, she describes splits between rationalism and mysticism, between theologies based on God's command and on God's love.
ISBN / EAN 9780674644878
Auteur Knight, Janice
Editeur Harvard University Press