Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism

By Janice Knight

Book Overview

Re-examining religious culture in 17th-century New England, Janice Knight discovers a contest of rival factions within the Puritan orthodoxy. Arguing that two distinctive strains of Puritan piety emerged in England prior to the migration to America, she describes a split between rationalism and mysticism, between theologies based on God's command and on God's love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674644883
• ISBN13: 9780674644885
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"