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Author Winship, Michael P. (Michael Paul)

Title Making heretics : militant Protestantism and free grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641 / Michael P. Winship.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 322 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-311) and index.
Contents 1. Assurance of Salvation in the Early Seventeenth Century -- 2. Lively Stones: John Cotton and Anne Hutchinson -- 3. Most Glorious Church in the World: Boston, c. 1636 -- 4. Practicing Puritanism in a Strange Land: Massachusetts, c. 1636 -- 5. Secret Quarrels Turn Public: Summer 1636-January 1637 -- 6. Convicting John Wheelwright: January-March 1637 -- 7. Abimelech's Faction: March-August 1637 -- 8. Reclaiming Cotton: August-September 1637 -- 9. November Trials: October-November 1637 -- 10. An American Jezebel: November 1637-March 1638 -- 11. Holding Forth Darkly: March 1638-February 1641 -- 12. Godly Endings.
Summary "Making Heretics is a new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecendented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex ongoing interaction of personalities and personal agendas and as a succession of short-term events with cumulative results." "Previously neglected figures like Sir Henry Vane Wheelright assume leading roles in the processes that nearly ended Massachusetts, while more familiar "hot Protestants" like John Cotton and Anne Hutchinson are relocated in larger frameworks. The book features a striking portrayal of the minister Thomas Shepard as an angry heresy-hunting militant, helping to set the volatile terms on which the disputes were conducted and keeping the flames of contention stoked even as he ostensibly attempted to quell them."--Jacket.
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Subject Puritans -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century.
Puritans.
Massachusetts.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Protestantism -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century.
Protestantism.
Antinomianism -- Massachusetts -- History of doctrines -- 17th century.
Antinomianism.
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term To 1775
Subject Massachusetts -- Church history -- 17th century.
Church history.
Religious pluralism -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century.
Religious pluralism.
Religion and politics -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century.
Religion and politics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Winship, Michael P. (Michael Paul). Making heretics. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691089434 (DLC) 2001036867 (OCoLC)47825194
ISBN 1400814839 (electronic book)
9781400814831 (electronic book)
9781400824953 (electronic book)
1400824958 (electronic book)
1282087533
9781282087538
9780691089430
0691089434