Bozeman, Theodore Dwight, 1942-

The precisianist strain : disciplinary religion & antinomian backlash in Puritanism to 1638 / Theodore Dwight Bozeman. - Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2004. - 1 online resource (xv, 349 pages) - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Disciplinary themes in the English Reformation -- Disciplinary themes of the Presbyterian movement -- Discipline as stabilizer in shifting times -- Richard Greenham and the first Protestant pietism -- Piety and self-management after Richard Greenham -- Introspection and self-control -- Cases of conscience -- More piety and more doubt -- Taking stock : piety's gains and costs -- John Eaton and the antinomian first wave -- John Cotton : antinomian adumbrations -- John Cotton in America : hypocrisy and crisis -- John Cotton in America : transcendent gifts and operations -- John Cotton and the American antinomians -- The construction of American antinomianism.



9781469601021


Puritans--England.
Puritans--Massachusetts.


Electronic Books.

BX9334 / .P743 2004