God's plot : Puritan spirituality in Thomas Shepard's Cambridge / edited by Michael McGiffert.

By:

Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649

Contributor(s):

McGiffert, Michael

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Commonwealth series (Amherst, Mass.) ; v. 1.Publication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1994.Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585260818
9780585260815

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: God's plot.DDC classification:

285.8/092 B 20

LOC classification:

BX7260.S53 A32 1994eb

Other classification:

11.55

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Contents:

Thomas Shepard : the practice of piety -- The autobiography -- The journal -- The people speak : confessions of lay men and women -- The confessions.

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Summary: First issued some twenty years ago, Michael McGiffert's edition of God's Plot brought into print the autobiography and journal of Thomas Shepard, Puritan writer, minister at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a leading architect of New England's church way. Since then, a generation of scholars has drawn on these documents to enhance our understanding of American Puritan spirituality and religious psychology. In this revised edition, Shepard's autobiography is reprinted in full along with a portion of his journal. Supplementing these texts are confessions of religious experience given by applicants for membership in the Cambridge congregation. These lay narratives, recorded by Shepard, bring to life the religious experiences of a broad spectrum of people. At the same time, they explore the dynamic interaction between clergy and laity that formed the crux of Puritan passion and power. The revised edition also contains new material reviewing recent trends of scholarship that update McGiffert's original introduction, long recognized for its important contribution to Puritan studies.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.

Thomas Shepard : the practice of piety -- The autobiography -- The journal -- The people speak : confessions of lay men and women -- The confessions.

First issued some twenty years ago, Michael McGiffert's edition of God's Plot brought into print the autobiography and journal of Thomas Shepard, Puritan writer, minister at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a leading architect of New England's church way. Since then, a generation of scholars has drawn on these documents to enhance our understanding of American Puritan spirituality and religious psychology. In this revised edition, Shepard's autobiography is reprinted in full along with a portion of his journal. Supplementing these texts are confessions of religious experience given by applicants for membership in the Cambridge congregation. These lay narratives, recorded by Shepard, bring to life the religious experiences of a broad spectrum of people. At the same time, they explore the dynamic interaction between clergy and laity that formed the crux of Puritan passion and power. The revised edition also contains new material reviewing recent trends of scholarship that update McGiffert's original introduction, long recognized for its important contribution to Puritan studies.

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