Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Re-Reading American Puritanism - Tapa blanda

In this pioneering and provocative book, adapted from the author's Harvard dissertation, Janice Knight offers a most helpful, if controversial, corrective to one of the chief historiographical conclusions regarding American Puritanism of the first-half of the seventeenth century'"Orthodoxies in Massachusetts" presents an immensely provocative and cogently argued thesis, debunking the older myth of Puritan monolith Janice Knight has shown the other strand of Puritan orthodoxy, the Sibbesian-Cottonian tradition, and how the articulated resistance of this group before, during, and after the Antinomian controversy can help to contextualize and rectify our reading of early American Puritanism. -- Paul C-H Lim "Westminster Theological Journal"

Re-examining religious culture in 17th-century New England, Janice Knight discovers a contest of rival factions within the Puritan orthodoxy. Arguing that two distinctive strains of Puritan piety emerged in England prior to the migration to America, she describes a split between rationalism and mysticism, between theologies based on God's command and on God's love.