Visible Saints The History of a Puritan Idea

Name: Visible Saints The History of a Puritan Idea
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ISBN: 9780801490415

ISBN-10: 0801490413

ISBN-13: 9780801490415

Edition: 1965

Authors: Edmund Morgan

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Through a richly detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and America, Professor Morgan offers an important reinterpretation of a pivotal era in New England history.Historians have generally supposed that the main outlines of the Puritan church were determined in England and Holland and transplanted to the new world. The author convincingly suggests, instead, that the distinguishing characteristic of the New England churches-the ideal of a church composed exclusively of true and tested saints-developed fully only in the 1630's and 1640's, some time after the first settlers arrived in New England. He also examines the…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 1965
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/15/1965
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.38" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.990

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia and Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America.