Godly republicanism
Subtitle: Puritans, pilgrims, and a city on a hill
By: Michael P. Winship
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780674063853
Subjects: Protestantism; Puritans; Church history; Church and state; Republicanism; History
Description: 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. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : an old man's tears for godly republicanism; title: The rise and bleeding fall of Elizabethan godly republicanism; title: The separatist beginnings of Congregationalism and Presbyterianism; title: James I and a new crisis of antichristian power; title: The triumphs and trials of the Lord's free people; title: Christian liberty at Plymouth Plantation; title: Separatism at Salem?; title: The appeal of Massachusetts Congregationalism; title: Designing a godly republic; title: A city on a hill; title: Godly republicanism's apocalypse.