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Author Bozeman, Theodore Dwight, 1942-

Title The precisianist strain : disciplinary religion & antinomian backlash in Puritanism to 1638 / Theodore Dwight Bozeman
Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 349 pages)
Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Contents Disciplinary themes in the English Reformation -- Disciplinary themes of the Presbyterian movement -- Discipline as stabilizer in shifting times -- Richard Greenham and the first Protestant pietism -- Piety and self-management after Richard Greenham -- Introspection and self-control -- Cases of conscience -- More piety and more doubt -- Taking stock : piety's gains and costs -- John Eaton and the antinomian first wave -- John Cotton : antinomian adumbrations -- John Cotton in America : hypocrisy and crisis -- John Cotton in America : transcendent gifts and operations -- John Cotton and the American antinomians -- The construction of American antinomianism
Summary In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Puritans -- England.
Antinomianism -- England -- History of doctrines -- 17th century
Puritans -- Massachusetts
Antinomianism -- Massachusetts -- History of doctrines -- 17th century
RELIGION -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Presbyterian.
Antinomianism -- History of doctrines
Puritans
Puritanisme.
Tucht.
Antinomisme.
England
Massachusetts
Form Electronic book
Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
ISBN 9781469601021
1469601028