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Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville's words, "the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart," how have we Americans made do? In The Real American Dream one of the nation's premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and stories by which Americans have reached for something beyond worldly desire. A spiritual history ranging from the first English settlements to the present day, the book is also a lively, deeply learned meditation on hope. Andrew Delbanco tells of the stringent God of Protestant Christianity, who exerted immense force over the language, institutions, and customs of the culture for nearly 200 years. He describes the falling away of this God and the rise of the idea of a sacred nation-state. And, finally, he speaks of our own moment, when symbols of nationalism are in decline, leaving us with nothing to satisfy the longing for transcendence once sustained by God and nation. From the Christian story that expressed the earliest Puritan yearnings to New Age spirituality, apocalyptic environmentalism, and the multicultural search for ancestral roots that divert our own, The Real American Dream evokes the tidal rhythm of American history. It shows how Americans have organized their days and ordered their lives--and ultimately created a culture--to make sense of the pain, desire, pleasure, and fear that are the stuff of human experience. In a time of cultural crisis, when the old stories seem to be faltering, this book offers a lesson in the painstaking remaking of the American dream.
National characteristics, American. --- Melancholy --- Puritans. --- Nationalism --- Self --- Social aspects --- History. --- History --- United States --- Civilization --- Philosophy.
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No previous work on John Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Richard Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves deeply into Eliot's theological writings and describes the historical development of Eliot's missionary work. By relating the two, he presents fresh perspectives that challenge widely accepted assessments of the Puritan mission. Cogley incorporates Eliot's eschatology into the history of the mission, takes into account the biographies of the proselytes (the "praying Indians") and the individual histories of the Christian Indian settlements (the "praying towns"), and corrects misperceptions about the mission's role in English expansion. He also addresses other interpretive problems in Eliot's mission, such as why the Puritans postponed their evangelizing mission until 1646, why Indians accepted or rejected the mission, and whether the mission played a role in causing King Philip's War. This book makes signal contributions to New England history, Native American history, and religious studies.
Indians of North America --- Missions --- Missionaries --- Puritans --- Religious adherents --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- History --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Eliot, John, --- Elliot, John,
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What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America's dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of 17th-century American Puritans. A work of composition theory, rhetorical theory, and cultural criticism, this volume ultimately provides not only new approaches to argumentation and the teaching of rhetoric, composition, and communication but also an original perspective on the current debate over public discourse
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Religious refugees --- Religious refugees --- Puritans --- Réfugiés religieux --- Réfugiés religieux --- Puritains --- History --- History --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Church of England --- Reformed Church --- Doctrines --- History --- Doctrines --- History --- England --- Geneva (Switzerland) --- Angleterre --- Genève (Suisse) --- Church history --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- Histoire religieuse
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Christian poetry, English --- Christianity and literature --- Dissenters, Religious --- Puritans --- Puritan movements in literature --- Protestantism and literature --- Poésie chrétienne anglaise --- Christianisme et littérature --- Dissidents (Religion) --- Puritains --- Puritanisme dans la littérature --- Protestantisme et littérature --- Puritan authors --- History and criticism --- History --- History --- Intellectual life --- Auteurs puritains --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Vie intellectuelle --- Milton, John,
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In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers-Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather-in order to challenge the traditional telling of the secularization of Puritanism, a story of faith transformed by reason, science, and business. Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and uncompromising than traditional accounts have allowed. At the same time, he portrays changing ideas and patterns of behavior that reveal much about the first hundred years of American life.
Puritans --- Biography. --- Mather, Cotton, --- Mather, Increase, --- Mather, Richard, --- Philopolites, --- C. M. --- M., C. --- Another hand, --- English minister, --- American, --- Mather, C. --- Philalethes, --- Mather, I. --- Macher, Richard, --- Lover of truth, --- Massachusetts --- Massachusetts-Bay (State) --- Massachusetts Bay (Province) --- Province of Massachusetts Bay --- Commonwealth of Massachusetts --- Massaçusets --- Штат Масачусетс --- Shtat Masachusets --- Масачусетс --- Masachusets --- Масачузетс --- Masachuzets --- Cymanwlad Massachusetts --- Méésíchóoshish Hahoodzo --- Massachusettsi osariik --- Μασαχουσετη --- Masachousetē --- Κοινοπολιτεια της Μασαχουσετης --- Koinopoliteia tēs Masachousetēs --- Mancomunidad de Massachusetts --- Masaĉuseco --- Mà-sat-tsû-set --- Makakukeka --- Persemakmuran Massachusetts --- Maasaasuusiits --- מסצ'וסטס --- Masatsʼuseṭs --- קהיליית מסצ'וסטס --- Ḳehiliyat Masatsʼuseṭs --- Masachosèt --- Massachusetta --- Massachuseta --- Massaciusseta --- Respublica Massachusettensis --- Respublica Massachusettensium --- Masačūsetsa --- Masačusetsas --- Masačusets --- Массачусеттс --- Massachusettsiĭn Khamtyn Nȯkhȯrlȯl --- Tlahtohcāyōtl Massachusetts --- マサチューセッツ州 --- Masachūsettsu-shū --- Masachūsettsushū --- Массачусетс --- Massachusets --- Комонвелт Масачусетса --- Komonvelt Masačusetsa --- Komonwelt ng Masatsusets --- Estado ng Masatsusets --- Massachusetts Eyaleti --- Співдружність Массачусетса --- Spivdruz︠h︡nistʹ Massachusetsa --- Khối thịnh vượng chung Massachusetts --- מאסאטשוסעטס --- Masaṭshuseṭs --- קאמאנוועלט פון מאַסאַטשוסעסט --- Ḳomonṿelṭ fun Masaṭshuseṭs --- Masačusetsos --- US-MA --- MA (State) --- MS (State : Massachusetts) --- Mass. (State) --- Maine --- Territory and Dominion of New-England --- Intellectual life --- Puritains --- Biographies --- Religion --- Vie intellectuelle --- Mather, Richard, -- 1596-1669.. --- Mather, Increase, -- 1639-1723.. --- Mather, Cotton, -- 1663-1728.. --- Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Biography.. --- Massachusetts -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.. --- Massachusetts -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. --- 18th century. --- american history. --- baptism. --- biography. --- boston. --- christian history. --- christian. --- church doctrine. --- church history. --- colonial america. --- colonies. --- cotton mather. --- early american history. --- faith. --- history. --- increase mather. --- massachusetts. --- new england. --- nonfiction. --- preacher. --- puritans. --- reason. --- religion. --- religious experience. --- religious history. --- richard mather. --- science. --- sermons. --- spirituality. --- theology. --- witch trials.
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Most anyone interested in such topics as creation mythology, Jungian theory, or the idea of "secret teachings" in ancient Judaism and Christianity has found "gnosticism" compelling. Yet the term "gnosticism," which often connotes a single rebellious movement against the prevailing religions of late antiquity, gives the false impression of a monolithic religious phenomenon. Here Michael Williams challenges the validity of the widely invoked category of ancient "gnosticism" and the ways it has been described. Presenting such famous writings and movements as the Apocryphon of John and Valentinian Christianity, Williams uncovers the similarities and differences among some major traditions widely categorized as gnostic. He provides an eloquent, systematic argument for a more accurate way to discuss these interpretive approaches. The modern construct "gnosticism" is not justified by any ancient self-definition, and many of the most commonly cited religious features that supposedly define gnosticism phenomenologically turn out to be questionable. Exploring the sample sets of "gnostic" teachings, Williams refutes generalizations concerning asceticism and libertinism, attitudes toward the body and the created world, and alleged features of protest, parasitism, and elitism. He sketches a fresh model for understanding ancient innovations on more "mainstream" Judaism and Christianity, a model that is informed by modern research on dynamics in new religious movements and is freed from the false stereotypes from which the category "gnosticism" has been constructed.
Gnosticism. --- Rome --- Religion. --- Gnosticism --- 273.1 --- 273.1 Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Religion --- Cults --- Rome - Religion --- Against the Galilaeans. --- Agrippa Castor. --- Anchorite. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Anti-Judaism. --- Antinomianism. --- Antipope. --- Apocalypse. --- Apocrypha. --- Apocryphon. --- Apostasy. --- Asceticism. --- Blasphemy. --- Borborites. --- Cainites. --- Catharism. --- Celibacy. --- Cerdo (gnostic). --- Cerinthus. --- Christian Identity. --- Christian fundamentalism. --- Christianity. --- Church Fathers. --- Clement of Alexandria. --- Consubstantiality. --- Contra Celsum. --- Creation myth. --- Demiurge. --- Demonization. --- Dialogue with Trypho. --- Divine Spark. --- Doctrine. --- Elohim. --- Epiphanes (gnostic). --- Epistle to the Laodiceans. --- Ernst Troeltsch. --- Exegesis. --- Exorcism. --- False prophet. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Gospel of Eve. --- Gospel of Philip. --- Heresy of the Free Spirit. --- Heresy. --- Heterodoxy. --- Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit. --- Ideal type. --- Incorruptibility. --- Infidel. --- Irenaeus. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judas Iscariot. --- Justification (theology). --- Justin Martyr. --- Manichaeism. --- Marcion of Sinope. --- Marcionism. --- Martyr. --- Metempsychosis. --- New religious movement. --- Nicolaism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Plotinus. --- Predestination. --- Problem of evil. --- Pseudo-Philo. --- Puritans. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religious text. --- Renunciation. --- Sacred prostitution. --- Satan. --- Sect. --- Secularization. --- Self-denial. --- Sethianism. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Sexual abstinence. --- Simon Magus. --- Skepticism. --- Sophia (Gnosticism). --- Spiritual marriage. --- Spirituality. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tertullian. --- The Other Hand. --- Theodicy. --- Theodotus of Byzantium. --- Theology. --- Thou shalt not commit adultery. --- Thou shalt not covet. --- Tractate. --- Wickedness. --- Writing. --- Zostrianos.
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Religion and politics --- Calvinism --- History --- History. --- Sainte Ligue (1576-1593) --- Paris (France) --- France --- Church history --- Religion et politique --- Calvinisme --- -Calvinism --- -Reformed Protestantism --- Politics and religion --- Catholic League (1576-1593) --- Holy League (1576-1593) --- Holy League, 1576-1593 --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ liga (1576-1593) --- Ligue (1576-1593) --- Saincte Union (1576-1593) --- Saincte Union des catholiques françois (1576-1593) --- Saincte Vnion (1576-1593) --- Saincte Vnion des catholiques françois (1576-1593) --- Sainte Union (1576-1593) --- -Religion and politics --- -Christian church history --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Religion --- Religions --- -History --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- -France --- Parijs (France) --- Pařiž (France) --- Parizh (France) --- Parigi (France) --- Bārīs (France) --- Lutetia (France) --- Paryż (France) --- Lutèce (France) --- Párizs (France) --- Parisioi (France) --- Parisi (France) --- Parys (France) --- باريس (France) --- Parij (France) --- Parĩ (France) --- Pa-lí (France) --- Париж (France) --- Горад Парыж (France) --- Horad Paryz︠h︡ (France) --- Парыж (France) --- Paryz︠h︡ (France) --- Парис (France) --- Parighji (France) --- Pariggi (France) --- Pariis (France) --- Παρίσι (France) --- Париж ош (France) --- Parizh osh (France) --- Parizo (France) --- Páras (France) --- Paarys (France) --- Pâ-lì-sṳ (France) --- 파리 (France) --- Palika (France) --- פריז (France) --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- History of France --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Paris --- Reformed Protestantism --- Congregationalism --- Reformation --- Reformed Church --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Arminianism --- Puritans --- Zwinglianism --- Doctrines --- Seine (France) --- Christian church history --- Histoire --- Histoire religieuse --- Bali (France) --- 巴黎 (France) --- City of Paris --- Religion and politics - France - Paris - History - 16th century. --- Calvinism - France - Paris - History. --- Calvinism - France - Paris - History --- Paris (France) - Church history - 16th century --- France - History - Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 --- FRANCE --- SAINTE LIGUE --- CONTRE-REFORME --- CATHOLICISME --- HISTOIRE RELIGIEUSE --- 16E-17E SIECLES --- HISTOIRE --- 1562-1598 (GUERRES DE RELIGION) --- 16E SIECLE --- REFORME ET CONTRE-REFORME --- 16E-18E SIECLES --- 17E SIECLE
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