TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winship,Michael P.
TI  - Godly republicanism: Puritans, pilgrims, and a city on a hill 
SN  - 9780674068445
AV  - F67 .W699 2012eb
U1  - 321.8609744 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Puritans
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - Church and state
KW  - England
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Puritains
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 17e siècle
KW  - Protestantisme
KW  - Républicanisme
KW  - Église et État
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - Democracy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-330) and index; Introduction : an old man's tears for godly republicanism -- The rise and bleeding fall of Elizabethan godly republicanism -- The separatist beginnings of Congregationalism and Presbyterianism -- James I and a new crisis of antichristian power -- The triumphs and trials of the Lord's free people -- Christian liberty at Plymouth Plantation -- Separatism at Salem? -- The appeal of Massachusetts Congregationalism -- Designing a godly republic -- A city on a hill -- Godly republicanism's apocalypse
N2  - Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the new world--they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking yet rooted in puritanism's history the project was; Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the new world--they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking yet rooted in puritanism's history the project was. Michael Winship takes us first to England, where he uncovers the roots of the puritans' republican ideals in the aspirations and struggles of Elizabethan Presbyterians. Faced with the twin tyrannies of Catholicism and the crown, Presbyterians turned to the ancient New Testament churches for guidance. What they discovered there--whether it existed or not--was a republican structure that suggested better models for governing than monarchy. The puritans took their ideals to Massachusetts, but they did not forge their godly republic alone. In this book, for the first time, the separatists' contentious, creative interaction with the puritans is given its due. Winship looks at the emergence of separatism and puritanism from shared origins in Elizabethan England, considers their split, and narrates the story of their reunion in Massachusetts. Out of the encounter between the separatist Plymouth pilgrims and the puritans of Massachusetts Bay arose Massachusetts Congregationalism
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