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Books on: cotton puritan

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Cotton Mather: The Puritan Priest

Book by Barrett Wendell; Dodd, Mead, 1891

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Mather, Cotton--1663-1728

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

XVII. COTTON MATHER, THE PURITAN PRIEST. BEFORE Cotton Mathers tomb was fairly closed, then, men who had known...assent. The son of Increase Mather, the grandson of John Cotton and of Richard Mather, sprung of a race of chosen vessels...
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Puritan Rhetoric: The Issue of Emotion in Religion

Book by Eugene E. White; Southern Illinois University Press, 1972

Subjects:

Enthusiasm--Religious Aspects--Christianity, Puritans

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...pt. 3, pp. 8-32; John Cotton, The Grounds and Ends of the...Covenant: Church Membership in Puritan New England Princeton, N...Sinners Exhorted Boston, 1686 ; Cotton Mather, A Midnight Cry ; Solomon...Mather, see Barrett Wendell, Cotton Mather:Puritan Priest
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The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

Book by Darren Staloff; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Elite (Social Sciences)--Massachusetts--History--17th Century, Massachusetts--Intellectual Life--17th Century, Massachusetts--Politics And Government--To 1775, Puritans--Massachusetts--Intellectual Life

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...67. 9. Whiting, "Life of Mr. Cotton", pp. 422-423. 10. Larzer Ziff, ed., John Cotton on the Churches of New England Cambridge...such efficient political practices, Cotton held his Puritan course under Bishops Barlow, Monteigne...
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The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry

Book by Perry Miller; Doubleday, 1956

Subjects:

American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Puritan Authors, Poetry, Puritans--United States--Literary Collections

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...THOMAS HOOKER Walker George L., Thomas Hooker 1891 . COTTON MATHER Boas Ralph P., and Louise Boas, Cotton Mather: Keeper of the Puritan Conscience 1928 . Holmes Thomas J., Cotton Mather: A Bibliography of His Works 1940 . Marvin Abijah...
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The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England

Book by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe; University of North Carolina Press, 1982

Subjects:

New England--Religious Life And Customs, Puritans--New England, Spiritual Life--Christianity--History Of Doctrines--17th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...religious experience linked Cotton Mather to Puritan contemplatives...devotional practices as did Cotton Mather, and they recorded...13 Ford, ed., Diary of Cotton Mather , I, 109-112, 205...conventional understanding of Puritan spirituality. "Puritans stressed activism and experience...

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Journal Articles on: cotton puritan

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Puritan Providences in Stowe's 'The Pearl of Orr's Island': The Legacy of Cotton Mather

Journal article by Dorothy Z. Baker; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 22, 1994

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Magnalia Christi Americana (Book)--Influence, Mather, Cotton--Influence, Religion and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Stowe, Harriet Beecher--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Pearl of Orr's Island (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Puritan providences in Stowes...Island: the legacy of Cotton Mather by Dorothy Z...in his book-case Cotton Mathers |Magnalia...Sacvan Bercovitch, The Puritan Origins of the American...the New England Way: Cotton Mather and the Exegesis...
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Cotton Mather and the Puritan Transition into the Enlightenment

Journal article by Pershing Vartanian; Early American Literature, Vol. 7, 1973

Subjects:

American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

COTTON MATHER AND THE PURITAN TRANSITION INTO THE ENLIGHTENMENT...unprecedented ease with which many Puritans privately stepped across...than in substance from late Puritan thought. While Puritan thought could not be confused...implies, 3 in practice the Puritans had a limited but undeniable...
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Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology

Journal article by Steven Jay White; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...provide a running commentary on Puritans in seventeenth-century New...an inclination toward the Puritans that turns a "critical anthology...hear other voices than the Puritans as well," they are filtered through the voices of their Puritan adversaries or overwhelmed...Absent are the works of Cotton Mather, Nathaniel Ward...
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Almost a Golden World: Sidney, Spenser, and Puritan Conflict in Bradstreet's "Contemplations"

Journal article by Lee Oser; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 52, 2000

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American poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bradstreet, Anne--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Puritans in literature--Influence, Regionalism in literature--Analysis, Sidney, Philip--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spenser, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for the recovery of a Puritan way of reading poetry...spiritual way through Cotton, whom she first heard...must have welcomed" Cotton on his arrival in Boston...Johnson and Miller Puritans xx), but in Bradstreets...between poetry and Puritan theology. In "Contemplations...constructed. Grace for the Puritans, as Hutchinson insisted...theological writings. Cotton uses the word in his...
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Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans

Journal article by Michael G. Ditmore; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 58, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...and closer encounters with Puritan writing. The Puritans, of course, hardly need...so much that the field of Puritan literary studies has dried up--the Puritans, somewhat like nuclear cockroaches...at all charitable toward Puritan subject matter and interests...Winthrop, Shepard, Hooker, Cotton, Williams. Furthermore...

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Magazine Articles on: cotton puritan

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Bearing the Burden? Puritan Wives

Magazine article by Martha Saxton; History Today, Vol. 44, October 1994

Subjects:

Puritans--Social aspects, Sex discrimination against women--History, United States history--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Women and religion--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...the experience of Puritans of both sexes in...sufficient to prompt Cotton Mather to attempt...subordination that Puritan men insisted upon...and sacrifices. Cotton Mather described...of human love a Puritan could imagine...pertaining to females, Puritans had the most positive...unsettled New World Puritans. Instead, he...Embedded in the Puritan notion of community...themselves and others. Cotton Mather wrote approvingly...
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Performance Art? Puritans in the Pulpit

Magazine article by Francis Bremer, Ellen Rydell; History Today, Vol. 45, September 1995

Subjects:

Preaching--History, Puritans--History, Sermons--History, Theology, Puritan--Practice

Collections: History, Entire Library

...familiar with the stories of the Bible. Puritan preachers drew upon this common ground...the Bible was not simply heard in Puritan sermons; it was reanimated, often...its goriest details. In this manner Puritans sought to move their listeners beyond...During the civil wars and the decade of Puritan rule that followed them, the traditional...adopted the evangelical tools of the Puritans and turned them to their own purposes...
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Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692

Magazine article by George Mckenna; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2001

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Books--Reviews, Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises Among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692 (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Arbella, the flagship of the Puritans fleet in 1630, the soon...witness on her behalf. (Cotton was one of the two ministers...of "walking legally.") Cotton, Breen notes, "denounced...focus on the "soft" side of Cotton, his tender mysticism of...antinomianism, for pushing the Puritan doctrine of "free grace...
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The Forgotten Founder: Why 'Puritan Deviant' Preacher Roger Williams Deserves a Bigger Place in American History

Magazine article; Church & State, Vol. 61, November 2008

Subjects:

Church and state, Davis, James Calvin--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Davis, James Calvin--Works, Freedom of religion, On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams (Collection), Williams, Roger--Appreciation

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...church and that the New England Puritans should publicly declare their...sense that he believed his Puritan worldview to be true and virtually...including those of other Puritans) to be false. But his Puritan theology also taught him that...you note that Puritan leader Cotton Mather dismissed Williams...
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The Hellfire Puritan Preachers Left Boston, Lincs, for Boston, Mass, and Gave America Its Accent

Magazine article by Paul Barker; New Statesman, Vol. 127, September 4, 1998

Subjects:

Cities and towns--England, Lincolnshire, England--History

Collections: Entire Library

...from. They dont stay. John Cotton was appointed vicar of the...arraigned for bringing in Puritan reforms. He emigrated, and...law of one famous American Puritan preacher, Increase Mather...the grandfather of another, Cotton Mather. No wonder Nathaniel...New Territories. And enough Puritans came from the Fens to establish...

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Newspaper Articles on: cotton puritan

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Congregants Make Modern-Day Pilgrimage to Puritan Roots

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 20, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Modern-Day Pilgrimage to Puritan Roots. Byline: Nancy Gier...gained a new respect for the Puritans in learning about the courage...According to Rodgers, the Puritans of 17th-century England...visited tiny villages where the Puritans held their services in secret...New England, and where John Cotton was vicar in 1612. A particularly...
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Pilgrims' Progress? Historical Revisionism Taking Toll on Holiday of Settlers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 25, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...were puritanical, not the Puritans," he says. "Back in the 17th century, the Puritans had a much more matter-of...attitude about sex." In fact, Puritan minister Cotton Mather condemned the "blind...between a married couple, the Puritans had no problem with that...
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First Round to Liverpool; Compiled by Charles Legge

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 22, 2010

Subjects:

United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...other British city except London. In the 17th century, Liverpudlian Puritan Richard Mather sailed in the wake of the Mayflower to New England, where his grandson, Cotton, became President of Yale University and a key figure in the Salem Witch...
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First Round to Liverpool

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 22, 2010

Subjects:

United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...other British city except London. In the 17th century, Liverpudlian Puritan Richard Mather sailed in the wake of the Mayflower to New England, where his grandson, Cotton, became President of Yale University and a key figure in the Salem Witch...
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First Round to Liverpool; ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 22, 2010

Subjects:

United States Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...played a part in American history. In the 17th century, Liverpudlian Puritan Richard Mather sailed in the wake of the Mayflower to New England where his grandson, Cotton, became President of Yale University and a key figure in the Salem Witch...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: cotton puritan

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Cotton, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

COTTON, JOHN 1584 1652, Puritan clergyman in England and Massachusetts...leading figures of the colony, and Cotton was chiefly responsible for the exile...of Increase Mather and the mother of Cotton Mather . See biographies by L. Ziff...
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Mather, Cotton

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MATHER, COTTON math r, 1663 1728, American Puritan clergyman and writer, b. Boston...of Richard Mather and of John Cotton. He was ordained (1685) and...celebrated of all New England Puritan ministers. He was a scholar of...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...first work published in the Puritan colonies was the Bay Psalm...Working Providence (1654) to Cotton Mather s epic Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). Even Puritan poetry was offered uniformly...own piety. The best of the Puritan poets, Edward Taylor , whose...
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Massachusetts

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...also a thoroughgoing Puritan theocracy (see Puritanism...clergymen such as John Cotton enjoyed great political...communities. The early Puritans were primarily agricultural...resentment of the Puritan presence resulted...authorities, led by Cotton Mather , became alarmed...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...hogs, cows milk, butter, cotton, oats, wheat, barley...Massachusetts Bay colony by the Puritans in 1630. Religious motives...and political turmoil of the Puritan Revolution in England, as...religious theocracy of the Puritan oligarchy flourished. By...were created by the zealous Puritan demand for conformity. These...

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