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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811626903321

Autore

Bozeman Theodore Dwight <1942->

Titolo

The precisianist strain : disciplinary religion & antinomian backlash in Puritanism to 1638 / / Theodore Dwight Bozeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

979-88-908773-1-4

1-4696-0102-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

285/.9

Soggetti

Puritans - England

Antinomianism - Massachusetts - History of doctrines - 17th century

Puritans - Massachusetts

Antinomianism - England - History of doctrines - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.