Power and the pulpit in Puritan New England /
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 expre...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
[1975]
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x1d3c |
Table of Contents:
- Building the patriarchy
- Shaping the Puritan unconscious
- Storms of God's wrath
- Clogging mists and obscuring clouds
- The dawning of that day.