num_pages: 240
description: Observing that intellectual changes within late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts Puritan culture closely paralleled changes within Puritan culture in England, Michael Winship re-examines one of the more nettlesome issues in the intellectual history of early New England. How did the logic Puritanism square itself with the increasingly hostile assumptions of the early Enlightenment? And, faced with a new intellectual world whose parameters were formed to a large extent in opposition to Puritanism, how did Puritans try to maintain credibility? In Seers of God , Winship's compelling analysis of topics ranging from theology to witchcraft places the problem of intellectual change fully in a transatlantic context.
language: English
title: Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment
titlecomplete: Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment (Early America: History, Context, Culture)
genres: History
ratings_count: 9
series: Early America: History, Context, Culture
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press