New England Soul
Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 1989
411 pages
978-0-19-802101-8 (ISBN)
Description
The New England Soul is the first comprehensive analysis of preaching in New England from the founding of the Puritan colonies to the outbreak of the Revolution. Using a multi-disciplinary approach--including analysis 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, as well a numerous lesser-known preachers. Stout reconstructs the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes, and explained history and society to the New England Puritans for one and a half centuries.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I: INVENTION, 1620-1665
- 1 The Institutional Setting of the Sermon
- 2 Regular Preaching and the Sequence of Salvation
- 3 "Sion's Out-Casts,
- II: ARRANGEMENT, 1666-1700
- 4 Days of Trouble and Thankful Remembrances
- 5 Returning unto God: The Conversion of the Children
- 6 Perpetuating the Covenant in Uncertain Times: The Sermon at Century's End
- III: STYLE, 1701-1730
- 7 Anglicization
- 8 Regular Preaching and the New Pietism
- 9 Israel's Constitution
- IV: DELIVERY, 1731-1763
- 10 Awakening
- 11 A New Balance
- 12 War
- V: MEMORY, 1764-1776
- 13 Trust in God
- 14 A Nation Born at Once
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
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