Early New England
Subtitle: A Covenanted Society (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion)
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: July 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780802813527
Subjects: Christianity; History of religion; c 1600 to c 1700; United States - Colonial Period; History - U.S.; Religion; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; History; Church and state; Church history; New England
First sentence: The framework of the ecclesiastical organization, and some of the civil organization, of early colonial New England had its origins in the parochial system of Europe and Old England.
Description: "The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth century New Englanders." "Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact." "David A. Weir is professor of history at Nyack College, Nyack, New York."--BOOK JACKET.