| To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism Contributor(s): Bozeman, Theodore Dwight (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807896276 ISBN-13: 9780807896273 Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North C OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Comparative Religion |
| Dewey: 974.02 |
| LCCN: 87-27803 |
| Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6" W x 9" (1.37 lbs) 424 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: To Live Ancient Lives signals a sharp redirection of Puritan studies. It provides the first comprehensive study of Puritan primitivism, defined as the drive to recover and return to church and society the ordinances of biblical times. This work traces a campaign to purify English Christianity of postapostolic accretions from the Henrician Reformation to the Great Migration of 1630 and through the first five decades in New England. Taking their bearings from a special past, Puritans were not concerned with the future in a modern sense. The Great Migration was not intended as an errand to reform the world or inaugurate the millennium, but as a flight to a free world in which long-lost biblical rules and ways could be reinstituted. Drawing on hundreds of sermons and tracts, Bozeman demonstrates how the search for the long-lost helps to identify Puritanism as a discrete order within Protestant dissent, and he locates that movement within the larger spectrum of restorationist Christian movements and of Western mythology. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bozeman, Theodore Dwight: - Theodore Dwight Bozeman is professor of religion and history at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought. |