The New England Soul: Preaching And Religious Culture in Colonial New England - Couverture rigide

Stout, Harry S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195039580 ISBN 13 : 9780195039580

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1986

Synopsis

Throughout the colonial era, New England's only real public spokesmen were the Congregational ministers. One result is that the ideological origins of the American Revolution are nowhere more clearly seen than in the sermons they preached. The New England Soul is the first comprehensive ysis of preaching in New England from the founding of the Puritan colonies to the outbreak of the Revolution. Using a multi-disciplinary approach--including ysis of rhetorical style and concept of identity and community--Stout examines more than two thousand sermons spanning five generations of ministers, including such giants of the pulpit as John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Increase and Cotton Mather, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Mayhew, and Charles Chauncy. Equally important, however, are the manuscript sermons of many lesser known ministers, which never appeared in print. By integrating the sermons of ordinary ministers with the printed sermons of their more illustrious contemporaries, Stout reconstructs the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes, and explicated history and society to the New England Puritans for one and a half centuries.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This first comprehensive analysis of preaching in colonial New England uses a multi-disciplinary approach - including analysis of rhetorical style and concepts of identity and community - to examine more than two thousand sermons spanning five generations of ministers, reconstructing the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195039580
• ISBN 13: 9780195039580
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 410
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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