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Stout, Harry S.

The New England soul : preaching and religious culture in colonial New England / Harry S. Stout. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. - xii, 398 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 317-385.

Invention, 1620-1665 --
The Institutional Setting of the Sermon --
Regular Preaching and the Sequence of Salvation --
"Sion's Out-Casts," --
Arrangement, 1666-1700 --
Days of Trouble and Thankful Remembrances --
Returning unto God: The Conversion of the Children --
Perpetuating the Covenant in Uncertain Times: The Sermon at Century's End --
Style, 1701-1730 --
Anglicization --
Regular Preaching and the New Pietism --
Israel's Constitution --
Delivery, 1731-1763 --
Awakening --
A New Balance --
War --
Trust in God --
A Nation Born at Once --
Epilogue.

This first comprehensive analysis of preaching in colonial New England uses a multi-disciplinary approach - including analysis of rhetorical style and concepts of identity and community - to examine more than two thousand sermons spanning five generations of ministers, reconstructing the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes.

ISBN: 0195039580

LCCN: 85029853

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Preaching--History.--New England
Propovijedanje--Povijest.--Nova Engleska

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New England--Religious life and customs.
Nova Engleska--Vjerski život i običaji.

LC Class. No.: BV4208.U6 / S75 1986

Dewey Class. No.: 251/.00974