Increase Mather, the Foremost American Puritan
Author | : Kenneth Ballard Murdock |
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Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Kenneth Ballard Murdock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Rick Kennedy |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802872115 |
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new biography Rick Kennedy tells a bigger story: Mather, he says, was the very first American evangelical. A fresh retelling of Cotton Mather's life, this biography corrects misconceptions and focuses on how he sought to promote, socially and intellectually, a biblical lifestyle. As older Puritan hopes in New England were giving way to a broader and shallower Protestantism, Mather led a populist, Bible-oriented movement that embraced the new century -- the beginning of a dynamic evangelical tradition that eventually became a major force in American culture. Incorporating the latest scholarly research but written for a popular audience, The First American Evangelical brings Cotton Mather and his world to life in a way that helps readers understand both the Puritanism in which he grew up and the evangelicalism he pioneered.
Author | : Increase Mather |
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Release | : 1693-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781404739819 |
Author | : Increase Mather |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-22 |
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ISBN | : 9781609622169 |
When a dancing master arrived in Boston in 1685 and offered lessons and classes for both sexes during times normally reserved for church meetings, the Puritan ministers went to court to suppress the practice. Increase Mather (1639-1723) took the leading part, writing and publishing this tract, which compiles arguments and precedents for the prohibition of "Gynecandrical Dancing, [i.e.] Mixt or Promiscuous Dancing, viz. of Men and Women ... together." These justifications were certainly shared with the court, which found the dancing master guilty, fined him £100, and allowed him to skip town. Mather's tract on dancing is an overwhelming compendium of sources and authorities: from the Bible, classical authors, Christian Church Fathers, medieval philosophers, and Reformed theologians both Continental and English. None of them, it appears, approved of mixed dancing-because it leads to adultery and worse. The vilest sins and the direst disasters lie only a short step from the dance floor. The Arrow is remarkable for two things (at least): for how much allusion and citation are packed into its brief 30 pages, and for how quickly it escalates the issue into life-or-death scenarios, all vividly painted to emphasize the mortal danger of men and women dancing together.
Author | : Norma Jean Lutz |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438144415 |
Describes the life and times of clergyman and scholar, Increase Mather.
Author | : Increase 1639-1723 Mather |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781013397677 |
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Author | : Robert Middlekauff |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1999-06-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780520219304 |
Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.