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Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea (editie 1965)

door Edmund S. Morgan

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Through a richly detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and America, Professor Morgan offers an important reinterpretation of a pivotal era in New England history. Historians have generally supposed that the main outlines of the Puritan church were determined in England and Holland and transplanted to the new world. The author convincingly suggests, instead, that the distinguishing characteristic of the New England churches--the ideal of a church composed exclusively of true and tested saints--developed fully only in the 1630's and 1640's, some time after the first settlers arrived in New England. He also examines the influence of the Separatist colony at Plymouth on the later settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and follows the difficulties created by a definition of the religious community so selective that the New England churches nearly expired for lack of saints to fill them.… (meer)

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Titel:	Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
Auteurs:	Edmund S. Morgan
Info:	Cornell University Press (1965), Paperback
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Still going at 86, Professor Morgan has just written a best selling biography of Benjamin Franklin. Pekarek provides a chapter by chapter analysis of Visible Saints. Published in the same year as Perry Miller died, the book is dedicated to him. In it Morgan deals with the history of the half way covenant, or the doctrine that church membership could be open to the faithful who had not yet made a public declaration of faith.

mdobe | Jan 14, 2018 |

I found this book very helpful in understanding early Puritanism in America. I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to study that era of American religious history. The two very helpful things about it which immediately come to my mind, though I read it some years back, are its discussions of the desire of American Puritans (1) to have "pure" churches whose members were all dedicated to their faith and (2) to make the profession of a saving grace experience a requirement for membership in many of their churches. As Morgan indicates, they did not bring that profession requirement with them from England. Rather, it developed in the Bay Colony then was taken up by a number of Puritan churches in Plymouth Colony. This book is relatively small physically, but it makes a very important contribution to this area of New England religious history. (

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dougshow | Mar 12, 2010 |

A very useful introduction to Puritan ideas and practices. First, Morgan argues that the Puritan church in New England was not a follower of the Puritan movement in England, but a leader in its development. This was especially the case when it came to communion practices and the confession of faith required for church membership. Morgan also describes different strains within the Puritan movement in New England, and their key proponents. Finally, he shows the Puritans' inability to maintain their membership because of internal contradictions between theology and practice. As a result, by the end of the 17th century, the religiously moribund communities of colonial New England were ripe for the Great Awakening. (

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Through a richly detailed account of the genesis, flowering, and decline of the Puritan ideal of a church of the elect in England and America, Professor Morgan offers an important reinterpretation of a pivotal era in New England history. Historians have generally supposed that the main outlines of the Puritan church were determined in England and Holland and transplanted to the new world. The author convincingly suggests, instead, that the distinguishing characteristic of the New England churches--the ideal of a church composed exclusively of true and tested saints--developed fully only in the 1630's and 1640's, some time after the first settlers arrived in New England. He also examines the influence of the Separatist colony at Plymouth on the later settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and follows the difficulties created by a definition of the religious community so selective that the New England churches nearly expired for lack of saints to fill them.

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