Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
Morgan, Edmund S.
From Call Phil Now - Books, West Roxbury, MA, U.S.A.
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## FINE book is clean and tight. Second printing, 1972. No dust jacket. Orange cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Faint smudge on front. Small monogram on front endpaper. No marks in or on book except as noted. NOT A REMAINDER. Not ex library. 159 pages. Index. Bubble wrapped and custom boxed for standard shipping. Fine hardcover copy. Seller Inventory # 003483
Bibliographic Details
Title: Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
About this title
Through a richly detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and America, Professor Morgan offers an important reinterpretation of a pivotal era in New England history.
Historians have generally supposed that the main outlines of the Puritan church were determined in England and Holland and transplanted to the new world. The author convincingly suggests, instead, that the distinguishing characteristic of the New England churches-the ideal of a church composed exclusively of true and tested saints-developed fully only in the 1630's and 1640's, some time after the first settlers arrived in New England. He also examines the influence of the Separatist colony at Plymouth on the later settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and follows the difficulties created by a definition of the religious community so selective that the New England churches nearly expired for lack of saints to fill them.
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