Records of trial from Thomas Shepard's church in Cambridge, 1638-1649 : heroic souls / / Lori Rogers-Stokes

• Autore: Rogers-Stokes Lori
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]; ©2020
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 190 p. 16 illus.)
• Disciplina: 285.8092
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Re-reading, Re-interpreting, and Recovering Priceless Texts -- 2. Close-Reading the Shepard Manuscripts -- 3. “Venture and Try”: Women Taking the Ultimate Leap of Faith -- 4. The Shepard Context -- 5. Heroic Souls: Reading the Cambridge Women’s Records -- 6. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a revolutionary new reading of manuscript records left by puritan minister Thomas Shepard in Cambridge, Massachusetts that have been studied for decades as his on-the-spot recording of oral relations of faith delivered by candidates for church membership. This book proves that these records are not relations, but Shepard’s personal record of sessions of trial—meetings with candidates still working out their spiritual seeking. New transcriptions of the original manuscript records, and corresponding never-before-published writing by Shepard, dispel much of the confusion produced by the published transcriptions. Close-readings of the manuscripts, contrasted with the published transcriptions, set the stage for a new understanding of puritan spiritual preparation in Shepard’s Cambridge church. The book concludes with a challenge to the negative reading of the women’s records that is central to established scholarship, revealing their powerful, confident spiritual identities and voices.
• Titolo autorizzato: Records of trial from Thomas Shepard's church in Cambridge, 1638-1649
• ISBN: 3-030-50845-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910427040403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world.