Orthodoxies in Massachusetts, Re-Reading American Puritanism (Innbundet (stive permer))

Janice Knight is Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature and the College, University of Chicago.

Reexamining religious culture in seventeenth-century New England, Janice Knight discovers a contest of rival factions within the Puritan orthodoxy. Arguing that two distinctive strains of Puritan piety emerged in England prior to the migration to America, she describes a split between rationalism and mysticism, between theologies based on God's command and on God's love.