Author: David A. Weir
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802813527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
Author: Ira Mason Allen
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Alfred Small Manson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Author: New Hampshire State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Author: Ebenezer Edson Cummings
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Author: C. B. Norton
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: William Henry Allison
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Inventories were received from archives of the governing bodies of the various Protestant churches and of their missionary societies and from the libraries of their theological seminaries, colleges, and historical societies.
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Author: Lynn Warren Turner
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
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Turner's work documents New Hampshire's transition from colony to state, including the development of the state constitution, the contests between constantly mutating political parties, and the conquering of the New England wilderness. He details the painful evolution of relations between the state government and the equally inexperienced federal government and takes note of the formidable accomplishments of the state's citizens during this period. Originally published in 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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