The making of an American thinking class : intellectuals and intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts /

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Main Author: Staloff, Darren, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the struggle for the company
  • The creation of the New England Way : cultural authority and the Puritan thinking class
  • John Cotton, Roger Williams, and the problem of charisma
  • John Cotton and the dialectic of Antinomian dissent
  • Antinomianism defeated
  • Ordering the one-party regime
  • Establishing orthodoxy-- From the Cambridge Platform to the half-way covenant
  • The restoration and the politics of declension
  • Increase Mather and the decline of cultural domination.