Tenacious of Their Liberties
The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts
Published on 18. March 1999
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-19-511360-0 (ISBN)
Description
This study approaches the Puritan experience in church government from the perspective of both the pew and the pulpit. For the past ten years, James Cooper has immersed himself in local manuscript church records. These previously untapped documents provide a fascinating glimpse of lay-clerical relations in colonial Massachusetts, and reveal that ordinary churchgoers shaped the development of Congregational practices as mych as the clerical and elite personages who for so long have populated histories of the period. Cooper's new findings both challenge existing models of church hierarchy and offer a new dimension to our understanding of the origins of New England democracy.
Reviews / Votes
This book is a significant contribution to our thinking about Puritanism and its connection to the Revolution. * Journal of American History * [a] carefully researched and skillfully argued book...presents a fresh reading of Colonial religion and rewards the careful attention it deserves. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and faculty. * Choice * An important reconsideration of lay religious life and colonial church order. * Religious Studies Review * A major revisionist study that makes extensive use of records from more than 100 early Massachusetts churches... covering the entire colonial period, he traces the shifting dynamics in church politics right up to the beginnings of the Revolutionary movement, * William and Mary Quarterly *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
634 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-511360-0 (9780195113600)
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Book
08/2002
Oxford University Press Inc
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E-Book
02/1999
1st Edition
OUP eBook
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Person
James F. Cooper, Jr. is Associate Professor of History at Oklahoma State University.
Content
Introduction
1: The Implementation of the Congregational Way
2: "A Mixed Form": Clerical Authority and Lay Liberty
3: Lay "Rebellion" and Clerical Reaction: Antinomianism and Its Aftermath
4: The Presbyterian Challenge
5: Congregationalism in Crisis: The Halfway Covenant
6: An Uneasy Balance
7: Declension and Reform
8: Clerical Conflict and the Decline of Sola Scriptura
9: Perpetuation and Disintegration
10: The Great Awakening and the Privatization of Piety
1: The Implementation of the Congregational Way
2: "A Mixed Form": Clerical Authority and Lay Liberty
3: Lay "Rebellion" and Clerical Reaction: Antinomianism and Its Aftermath
4: The Presbyterian Challenge
5: Congregationalism in Crisis: The Halfway Covenant
6: An Uneasy Balance
7: Declension and Reform
8: Clerical Conflict and the Decline of Sola Scriptura
9: Perpetuation and Disintegration
10: The Great Awakening and the Privatization of Piety