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To Live Ancient Lives

The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism

By: Theodore Dwight Bozeman

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To Live Ancient Lives

The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism

By: Theodore Dwight Bozeman

To Live Ancient Lives signals a sharp redirection of Puritan studies. It provides the first comprehensive study of Puritan primitivism, defined as the drive to recover and return to church and society the ordinances of biblical times. This work traces a campaign to purify English Christianity of postapostolic accretions from the Henrician Reformation to the Great Migration of 1630 and through the first five decades in New England. Taking their bearings from a special past, Puritans were not concerned with the future in a modern sense. The Great Migration was not intended as an errand to reform the world or inaugurate the millennium, but as a flight to a free world in which long-lost biblical rules and ways could be reinstituted. Drawing on hundreds of sermons and tracts, Bozeman demonstrates how the search for the long-lost helps to identify Puritanism as a discrete order within Protestant dissent, and he locates that movement within the larger spectrum of restorationist Christian movements and of Western mythology. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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The Precisianist Strain

Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638

By: Theodore Dwight Bozeman

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The Precisianist Strain

Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638

By: Theodore Dwight Bozeman

In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist Strain clarifies what Puritanism in its disciplinary mode meant for an early modern society struggling with problems of change, order, and identity. Focusing on ascetic teachings and rites, which in their severity fostered the "precisianist strain" prevalent in Puritan thought and devotional practice, Bozeman traces the reactions of believers put under ever more meticulous demands. Sectarian theologies of ease and consolation soon formed in reaction to those demands, Bozeman argues, eventually giving rise to a "first wave" of antinomian revolt, including the American conflicts of 1636-1638. Antinomianism, based on the premise of salvation without strictness and duty, was not so much a radicalization of Puritan content as a backlash against the whole project of disciplinary religion. Its reconceptualization of self and responsibility would affect Anglo-American theology for decades to come.

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To Live Ancient Lives

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Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638

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Protestants in an Age of Science

The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought

By: Theodore Dwight Bozeman

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The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought

By: Theodore Dwight Bozeman

Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian science, were afforded with additional means of elaborating a doxological version of natural science and of defending it against naturalism and other enemies of Christian faith. Originally published in 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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John Clarke and His Legacies

Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, 1638-1750

By: Sydney V. James,Theodore Dwight Bozeman

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Religion and Law in Colonial Rhode Island, 1638-1750

By: Sydney V. James,Theodore Dwight Bozeman

John Clarke and His Legacies is the first full-length biography of John Clarke (1609-76), a principal founder of colonial Rhode Island. Although Roger Williams usually gets most of the attention, Sydney James shows that Clarke made a lasting contribution to the colony. Clarke founded the first Baptist church in Newport, where he continued to contribute to the Baptist community until his death. And in 1663 he procured the royal charter that would remain the foundation of government in Rhode Island until 1842. This inquiry into Clarke's life engages a variety of intriguing topics. It surveys a formative stage in American Baptist history, one that spurned dependency upon government more thoroughly than any part of the United States does today. Through the experience of Clarke, we gain many new insights into colonial legal and religious history. James gives particular attention to the charitable trust that Clarke set up at his death, which provides a striking example of the direction taken in the relations between church and state in colonial America.

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Penn State Press

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Protestants in an Age of Science

The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought

By: Theodore Dwight Bozeman

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The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought

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To Live Ancient Lives

To Live Ancient Lives

The Precisianist Strain

The Precisianist Strain

To Live Ancient Lives

To Live Ancient Lives

The Precisianist Strain

The Precisianist Strain

Protestants in an Age of Science

Protestants in an Age of Science

John Clarke and His Legacies

John Clarke and His Legacies

Protestants in an Age of Science

Protestants in an Age of Science

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