The New England soul: preaching and religious culture in colonial New England

Harry Stout's groundbreaking study of preaching in colonial New England changed the field when it first appeared in 1986. Here, twenty-five years later, is a reissue of Stout's book: a reconstruction of the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes and explained history and society to the New England Puritans forone and a half centuries. "Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of NewEngland preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book." INDICE: Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction I. Invention, 1620-1665 1. The Institutional Setting of the Sermon 2. Regular Preaching and the Sequence of Salvation 3. "Sion's Out-Casts" II. Arrangement, 1666-1700 4. Days of Trouble and Thankful Remembrances 5. Returning Unto God: The Conversion of the Children 6. Perpetuating the Covenant in Uncertain Times: The Sermon at Century's End III. Style, 1701-1730 7. Anglicization 8. Regular Preaching and the New Pietism 9. Israel's Constitution IV Delivery, 1731-1763 10. Awakening 11. A New Balance 12. War V. Memory, 1764-1776 13. Trust in God 14. A Nation Born at Once Epilogue Notes Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-989097-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 416
• Fecha Publicación: 05/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés