The Prism of Piety: Catholick Congregational Clergy at the Beginning of the Enlightenment

by John Corrigan

The first study to focus on catholick congregationalism, this book illustrates the manner in which the Enlightenment first affected American religious thought and describes the crystallization of a set of terms that continued to guide American thought in the Age of Reason. This book attacks the widely accepted ideas, propounded by Perry Miller, that Enlightenment ideas hastened the demise of religion in eighteenth-century New England. Corrigan argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195067584
• ISBN13: 9780195067583
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"