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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451779103321

Autore

Kidd Thomas S

Titolo

The Protestant interest [[electronic resource] ] : New England after Puritanism / / Thomas S. Kidd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-281-72194-8

9786611721947

0-300-12840-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 212 p.))

Disciplina

280/.4/097409033

Soggetti

Protestantism - New England - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

New England Church history 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: ''Fidelity to Christ and to the Protestant Succession'' Benjamin Colman and the Protestant Interest -- Chapter Two: ''Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst'' World News, the Catholic Threat, and International Protestantism -- Chapter Three: Protestants, Popery, and Prognostications New England Almanacs -- Chapter Four: ''The Devil and Father Rallee'' Narrating Father Rale's War -- Chapter Five: ''The Madness of the Jacobite Party'' Imagining a High-Church Jacobite Threat -- Chapter Six: ''The Dawning of that Sabbath of Rest Promised to the People of God'' Eschatology and Identity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740's. This engrossing book explores the religious history of New England during the period and offers new reasons for this change in cultural identity. After England's Glorious Revolution, says Thomas Kidd, New Englanders abandoned their previous hostility toward Britain, viewing it as the chosen leader in the Protestant fight against world Catholicism.



They also imagined themselves part of an international Protestant community and replaced their Puritan beliefs with a revival-centered pan-Protestantism. Kidd discusses the rise of "the Protestant interest" and provides a compelling argument about the origins of both eighteenth-century revivalism and the global evangelical movement.