Title God's plot : Puritan spirituality in Thomas Shepard's Cambridge / edited by Michael McGiffert

Edition Rev. and expanded ed Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages) Series Commonwealth series (Amherst, Mass.) ; v. 1. Contents Thomas Shepard : the practice of piety -- The autobiography -- The journal -- The people speak : confessions of lay men and women -- The confessions Summary First issued some twenty years ago, Michael McGiffert's edition of God's Plot brought into print the autobiography and journal of Thomas Shepard, Puritan writer, minister at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a leading architect of New England's church way. Since then, a generation of scholars has drawn on these documents to enhance our understanding of American Puritan spirituality and religious psychology. In this revised edition, Shepard's autobiography is reprinted in full along with a portion of his journal. Supplementing these texts are confessions of religious experience given by applicants for membership in the Cambridge congregation. These lay narratives, recorded by Shepard, bring to life the religious experiences of a broad spectrum of people. At the same time, they explore the dynamic interaction between clergy and laity that formed the crux of Puritan passion and power. The revised edition also contains new material reviewing recent trends of scholarship that update McGiffert's original introduction, long recognized for its important contribution to Puritan studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649. SUBJECT Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649 fast Subject Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Clergy -- Biography Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 17th century RELIGION -- Christianity -- Presbyterian. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious. Puritans Puritans -- Clergy Puriteinen. SUBJECT Cambridge (Mass.) -- Church history -- 17th century Massachusetts -- Church history -- 17th century Subject Massachusetts Massachusetts -- Cambridge Genre/Form Biographies Church history History Herinneringen (vorm) Dagboeken (vorm) Form Electronic book Author McGiffert, Michael ISBN 0585260818 9780585260815

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