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The New England soul : preaching and religious culture in colonial New England / Harry S. Stout.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.Description: xii, 398 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195039580
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 251/.00974 19
LOC classification:
  • BV4208.U6 S75 1986
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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