num_pages: 366
description: In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist Strain clarifies what Puritanism in its disciplinary mode meant for an early modern society struggling with problems of change, order, and identity. Focusing on ascetic teachings and rites, which in their severity fostered the "precisianist strain" prevalent in Puritan thought and devotional practice, Bozeman traces the reactions of believers put under ever more meticulous demands. Sectarian theologies of ease and consolation soon formed in reaction to those demands, Bozeman argues, eventually giving rise to a "first wave" of antinomian revolt, including the American conflicts of 1636-1638. Antinomianism, based on the premise of salvation without strictness and duty, was not so muc
language: English
title: The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion & Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
titlecomplete: The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion & Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press