The Faithful Shepherd : A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century, With a New Introduction Paperback / softback
by David D. Hall
Part of the Harvard Theological Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
This description of the Americanization of a European institution, the Puritan ministry as it was transported to the New England colonies in the seventeenth century, offers a host of new insights into American religious history.
By focusing on such areas as the ministers’ authority, church membership, and ecclesiastical organization, David D.
Hall shows that, although the effects of the American experience might be considered liberalizing or democratizing in the first years of settlement, during the entire course of the seventeenth century the New World environment produced an institutional development that returned the churches to forms and doctrines that existed before the emigration from Europe. The Faithful Shepherd not only sustains a bold thesis about Americanization but also affords the reader one of the freshest and most comprehensive histories of the seventeenth-century New England mind and society.
This new printing contains a new introduction reflecting on how our understanding of seventeenth-century New England has developed since the book was first published.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, none
- Publisher:Harvard Divinity School Theological Studies
- Publication Date:30/05/2006
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- ISBN:9780674019591
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, none
- Publisher:Harvard Divinity School Theological Studies
- Publication Date:30/05/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674019591