Contributor
McGiffert, Michael.
Imprint:Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley [1969]
Descriptionviii, 280 p. 22 cm.
Note:Essays.
Note:INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: The Puritan strain / Richard Schlatter -- PART ONE: THE PURITAN VISION: "A CITTY UPON A HILL": A modell of Christian charity / John Winthrop -- A willing and voluntary subjection / Peter Bulkeley-- Authority and liberty / John Winthrop -- The Puritan state and Puritan society / Perry Miller -- The ultimate individual / Ralph Barton Perry -- The mirror of Puritan authority / Darrett B. Rutman -- PART TWO: THE PURITAN BECOMES AMERICAN: A. The vision refracted: "a mess of American pottage" : New England's duty / Nicholas Noyes -- The glory departing from New England / Increase Mather -- Errand into the wilderness / Perry Miller -- The Puritans: from Providence to pride / Daniel J. Boorstein -- B. God profit: "horrible snares and infinite sins" : The case of Robert Keayne / John Winthrop -- Last will and testament / Robert Keayne -- A Christian at his calling / Cotton Mather -- The Protestant ethic / Perry Miller -- Ungodly Puritans / Herbert W. Schneider -- C. God land: "the almost only garden" : Planting this wilderness / Edward Johnson -- The places of their acquaintance / Samuel Sewall -- Paradise in America / Jonathan Edwards -- Puritanism, the wilderness, and the frontier / Alan Heimert -- PART THREE: THE PURITAN LEGACY: A. The Protestant ethic: The Puritan ethic and the American Revolution / Edmund S. Morgan -- God and mammon / Irvin G. Wyllie -- Poor Richard and Playboy / Morton L. Ross -- B. Puritanism and democracy: The idea of the covenant and American democracy / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Theological convictions and democratic government / Winthrop S. Hudson -- The revolution of nonconformity / Perry Miller -- C. Puritanism and the American character: The spirit of America / Harold J. Laski -- The Pilgrim fathers and the American way / Dixon Wector -- The Puritan legacy / Kenneth B. Murdock.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 275-280. Bibliographical footnotes.
