Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster Bloomsbury Academic, 2006 - 697 páginas This exhaustive treatment of the Puritan movement covers its doctrines, its people, its effects on politics and culture, and its enduring legacy in modern Britain and America. This ambitious work contains nearly 700 entries covering people, events, ideas, and doctrines--the whole of Puritanism. Exhaustive and authoritative, it draws on the work of more than 80 leading scholars in the field. Impeccable scholarship combines with eminent readability to make this a valuable work for all readers and researchers from secondary school up.
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... Divine , theologian , and controversialist . Entered at Brasenose College , Oxford , around the year 1602 , he transferred to St. Mary's Hall and received the B.A. in 1607 or 1608. He was first drawn into the puritan subculture while ...
... divine punishment to call back and correct God's people ; he thereby influenced the General Court legislation against " Provoking Evils . " Toward the end of the war , Mather began a narrative that largely interpreted it in biblical ...
... divine to a chaplaincy in 1594 ; a year later , however , he lost out the Regius professorship in divinity to John Overall , at which point Wotton left Cam- bridge for a brief stint as professor of Gresham Col- lege . Wotton's career ...
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List of Contributors | ix |
Acknowledgments | xvii |
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America | 76 |
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