Reforming People Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England

Name: Reforming People Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England
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ISBN: 9780807873113

ISBN-10: 080787311X

ISBN-13: 9780807873113

Edition: 2012

Authors: David D. Hall

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In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on "consent" as a premise of all civil governance. Puritans also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts with the intention of establishing equity. In this political and social history of the five New England colonies, Hall provides a masterful re-evaluation of the earliest moments of New England's history,…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

David D. Hall is professor of American religious history at Harvard Divinity School.



Foreword


Preface


Introduction



"Arbitrary" or "Democratical"?: The Making of Colony Governments



Land, Taxes, and Participation: The Making of Town Governments



Godly Rule: Empowering the Saints



An Equitable Society: Ethics, the Law, and Authority



"Already in Heaven"?: Church and Community in Cambridge, Massachusetts


Conclusion


Notes


Index