Screen LibraryMaking heretics : militant protestantism and free grace in massachusetts, 1636-1641 /
Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and politic...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2002] ©2002 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Core Textbook. |
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Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex ongoing interaction of personalities and personal agendas and as a succession of short-term events with cumulative results. Previously neglected figures like Sir Henry Vane and John Wheelwright assume leading roles in the processes that nearly ended Massachusetts, while more familiar "hot Protestants" like John Cotton and Anne Hutchinson are relocated in larger frameworks. The book features a striking portrayal of the minister Thomas Shepard as an angry heresy-hunting militant, helping to set the volatile terms on which the disputes were conducted and keeping the flames of contention stoked even as he ostensibly attempted to quell them. The first book-length treatment in forty years, Making Heretics locates its story in rich contexts, ranging from ministerial quarrels and negotiations over fine but bitterly contested theological points to the shadowy worlds of orthodox and unorthodox lay piety, and from the transatlantic struggles over the Massachusetts Bay Company's charter to the fraught apocalyptic geopolitics of the Reformation itself. An object study in the ways that puritanism generated, managed, and failed to manage diversity, Making Heretics carries its account on into England in the 1640s and 1650s and helps explain the differing fortunes of puritanism in the Old and New Worlds. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400824953 |
| Index Number: | F67 |
| CLC: | K712.9 |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- ONE. Assurance of Salvation in the Early Seventeenth Century -- TWO. Lively Stones: John Cotton and Anne Hutchinson -- THREE. The Most Glorious Church in the World: Boston, c. 1636 -- FOUR. Practicing Puritanism in a Strange Land: Massachusetts, c. 1636 -- FIVE. Secret Quarrels Turn Public: Summer 1636 January 1637 -- SIX. Convicting John Wheelwright: January March 1637 -- SEVEN. Abimelech s Faction: March August 1637 -- EIGHT Reclaiming Cotton: August September 1637 -- NINE. The November Trials: October November 1637 -- TEN. An American Jezebel: November 1637 March 1638 -- ELEVEN. Holding Forth Darkly: March 1638 February 1641 -- TWELVE. Godly Endings -- NOTES -- INDEX. |