TY - GEN T1 - Power and the pulpit in Puritan New England T2 - Princeton legacy library. A1 - Elliott, Emory, 1942-2009 LA - English PP - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press YR - 1975 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn768348792 AB - For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts and fears, feelings created by their particular cultural situation and aroused by the crucial social events of seventeenth-century America. OP - 240 CN - BV4208.U6 E43 1975eb SN - 9781400868209 SN - 1400868203 SN - 9780691617893 SN - 0691617899 SN - 069107206X SN - 9780691072067 SN - 069107506X KW - Preaching : New England : History. KW - Puritans : New England. KW - Puritains : Nouvelle-Angleterre. KW - Prédication : Nouvelle-Angleterre : Histoire. KW - 11.75 homiletics. KW - HISTORY : United States : Colonial Period (1600-1775) KW - RELIGION : Christianity : Presbyterian. KW - Preaching KW - Puritans KW - New England KW - Puritanismus KW - Predigt KW - Puritaner KW - Neuengland KW - USA KW - Puritains : États-Unis. KW - Nouvelle-Angleterre (États-Unis) : 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) KW - Geschichte 1630-1680. KW - Geschichte 1600-1700. KW - New England : Puritanism : Sermons : ca 1660- ca 1700 KW - History ER -