Description: Making Heretics : Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1, Hardcover by Winship, Michael P., ISBN 0691089434, ISBN-13 9780691089430, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex ongoing interaction of personalities and personal agendas and as a succession of short-term events with cumulative results.
Previously neglected figures like Sir Henry Vane and John Wheelwright assume leading roles in the processes that nearly ended Massachusetts, while more familiar "hot Protestants" like John Cotton and Anne Hutchinson are relocated in larger frameworks. Th features a striking portrayal of the minister Thomas Shepard as an angry heresy-hunting militant, helping to set the volatile terms on which the disputes were conducted and keeping the flames of contention stoked even as he ostensibly attempted to quell them.
The first book-length treatment in forty years, Making Heretics locates its story in rich contexts, ranging from ministerial quarrels and negotiations over fine but bitterly contested theological points to the shadowy worlds of orthodox and unorthodox lay piety, and from the transatlantic struggles over the Massachusetts Bay Companys charter to the fraught apocalyptic geopolitics of the Reformation itself. An object study in the ways that puritanism generated, managed, and failed to manage diversity, Making Heretics carries its account on into England in the 1640s and 1650s and helps explain the differing fortunes of puritanism in the Old and New Worlds.
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Book Title: Making Heretics : Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massac
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: Making Heretics : Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Christianity / Protestant, Christian Church / History, Christianity / History, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General, Religion, Politics & State, American Government / State
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, History
Author: Michael P. Winship
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
