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Hebraic Puritans: Old Testament Politics in Early New England
… Chapter 1 begins in the Elizabethan era, when Puritans used the Old Testament to challenge the status quo of church and state. Chapter 2 continues the narrative through early Stuart and Interregnum England, positing that Plymouth Colony drew deeply on Hebraic sources for a variety of political …
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English Puritans: Their History, Theology, Practice, and Joy English Puritan Devotional
<p>This research focuses on the English Puritans' history, theology, religious practice, and joy. The historical context of the group is crucial to understanding their literature and culture. They lived in a time where they were persecuted for their strict beliefs, fighting for their idea of the …
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"Of old Puritan stock" : shifting Catholic memory of the Puritans across the long nineteenth century, 1788–1920.
… North. This group used positive memory of the Puritans to position themselves as loyal Americans and the heirs of Puritan fervor. After an introduction, the next two chapters use published sources by American Catholics to chronologically follow changing sentiment. The final two chapters take a …
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A Quantitative Interpretation of Five Puritan Preachers Spanning Four Generations
… From the prevailing view of the 1920's which saw Puritans as narrow-minded seventeenth-century fundamentalists, the pendulum swung in the 1930's through the efforts of Samuel Eliot Morison and Perry Miller to the acceptance of Puritans as Renaissance Protestants. David D. Hall interpreted Puritans …
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Puritan iconoclasm : its origin and motivation
… and Jean Calvin up to the time of the English Puritans. Karlstadt's iconoclastic treatises were read in Switzerland and much of their content adopted, defended and refined by men like Leo Jud, Ludwig Haetzer and Ulrich Zwingli. The introduction of Jean Calvin's hermeneutics of synecdoche …
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A critique of contemporary Puritan/Salafi discourse on the issue of the mawlid and its classification as Bid'ah
… their claims to 'Puritanism,' and 'Salafism.' Puritans base their discourse on certain hadith such as, "Every bid 'ah is misguidance," and "Whoever innovates in this matter of ours that which is not of it, it is to be rejected," as well as certain statements by the sahabah, and the works of …
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Beheld
… on the Mayflower as indentured servants to the Puritans, without his wife’s knowledge. Court records indicate the children’s mother searched for years to locate where her children were. In reimagining the Mayflower story and puritans, more broadly, in the context of the 17th century, this …
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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
… which pervades the vast wilderness in which the Puritans had settled. It was a unique sense to the American Puritans, for in Europe, there was no such wilderness. The Puritan sense of evil was heightened by the belief that the Puritans were God's most holy people and, possibly, the people called …
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Toiling among the Seed of Israel: A Comparison of Puritan and Mormon Missions to the Indians
… prophesied return of Christ to the earth. The Puritans and Mormons engaged in and overseeing the missionary endeavors of the two locales under study likewise shared several parallel conversion methods. One such method consisted of utilizing one of the largest resources available to the two …
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'There was never man handled as I am' : the legacy and significance of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, 1558-1660
… Changing interpretations of Cranmer by radical puritans and Laudians highlight the innovative nature of religious reforms leading to and during the hostilities of the 1640s, whilst the use of Cranmer by moderates within the English Church reveals a longstanding reverence for and adherence to the …
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The Dean and Chapter of Durham, 1558-1603
… diocese in which, according to Dr Collinson, the puritans had 'unfettered control'. How this outpost of radicalism came to be located at Durham and the way in which the puritans used their positions of authority are both questions which are dealt with, but the scope of the study is much wider than …
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A Critical Analysis of the Influence of the Separatists on the Ecclesiology of Early Congregationalism
… found in the old non-conformists, non-separating Puritans such as William Ames (1576-1633) and a closer proximity to some of the Scots Presbyterians than much of the historiography allows.
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Congregationalism in Oxford : The growth and development of Congregational Churches in and around the city of Oxford since 1653
… the three hundred and fifty years from the Puritans in the English Commonwealth until the beginning of the twenty-first century. It considers these developments in the light of the national background and explains how they are distinctive, rather than representative, through the story of the …
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John Cotton's Middle Way
… of the ceremonial practices that divided many Puritans and Conformists were adiaphora and could be tolerated in his congregation. There was also a subversive element to his teachings on adiaphora since, unlike some Puritans, Cotton was not willing to submit to church demands for conformity on …
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Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose
… foundations of union with Christ, which the Puritans often called spiritual marriage. Contrary to common perception, the Puritans encouraged intimacy and sexual enjoyment in their godly marriage that they often perceived as a reciprocal relationship with their spiritual marriage. The third …
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The Dark Side of the American Dream: Individual Agency, Hard Work, and Public Mass Shootings
… Protestant Reformation, then continues on to the Puritans of New England and the First Great Awakening, the start of the American public educational system, and the development of fame-obsession and celebrity culture. Importantly, this project will also show the manifestations and effects of the …
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English bourgeois tragedy from 1576 to 1642
… and of the closing of the theaters by the puritans. This investigation includes the following points: a historical study of the influence of social, political, and religious conditions upon bourgeois tragedy in its rise, its flourishing, and its decline; an analysis of the basic conceptions …
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Creating a New Genre: Mary Rowlandson and Hher Narrative of Indian Captivity.
… the jeremiad, a sermon form designed to remind Puritans of their Covenant with God. To her contemporaries, Rowlandson served as an example of God's Providence. To later generations and specifically twenty-first century scholars, she represents America's first female literary prose voice.</p>
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From typology to aesthetics in American literature
… use of typology in American literature from the Puritans through the twentieth century of American literature. In particular, this project takes a closer look at major works of John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville in order to investigate …
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