The Mathers
three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596-1728
by Robert Middlekauff
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In this work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers--Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather--in order to challenge the traditional telling of the secularization of Puritanism, a story of faith transformed by reason, science, and business. Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and uncompromising than traditional accounts have allowed. At the same time, he portrays changing ideas and patterns of behavior that reveal much about the first hundred years of American life.
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The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728
June 29, 1999, University of California Press
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The Mathers: three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596-1728
1999, University of California Press
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1976, Oxford UniversityPress
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The Mathers: three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596-1728.
1971, Oxford University Press
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The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728
June 1971, Oxford Univ Pr
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-427) and index.
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1971.
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"The question "who am I?" is often in the mouths of men in the twentieth century."
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