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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458019303321

Autore

Stout Harry S.

Titolo

The New England soul : preaching and religious culture in colonial New England / / Harry S. Stout

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

0-19-992139-3

Edizione

[Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Disciplina

251.00974

251/.00974

Soggetti

Preaching - New England - History

Electronic books.

New England Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1986.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-383) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: INVENTION, 1620-1665; 1. The Institutional Setting of the Sermon; 2. Regular Preaching and the Sequence of Salvation; 3. "Sion's Out-Casts"; PART II: ARRANGEMENT, 1666-1700; 4. Days of Trouble and Thankful Remembrances; 5. Returning unto God: The Conversion of the Children; 6. Perpetuating the Covenant in Uncertain Times: The Sermon at Century's End; PART III: STYLE, 1701-1730; 7. Anglicization; 8. Regular Preaching and the New Pietism; 9. Israel's Constitution; PART IV: DELIVERY, 1731-1763; 10. Awakening; 11. A New Balance; 12. War

PART V: MEMORY, 1764-177613. Trust in God; 14. A Nation Born at Once; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

""Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book."" - Journal of American History ""Simply breatht