Title Godly republicanism : Puritans, pilgrims, and a city on a hill / Michael P. Winship

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (339 pages) Contents Introduction : an old man's tears for godly republicanism -- The rise and bleeding fall of Elizabethan godly republicanism -- The separatist beginnings of Congregationalism and Presbyterianism -- James I and a new crisis of antichristian power -- The triumphs and trials of the Lord's free people -- Christian liberty at Plymouth Plantation -- Separatism at Salem? -- The appeal of Massachusetts Congregationalism -- Designing a godly republic -- A city on a hill -- Godly republicanism's apocalypse Summary Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the new world--they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking yet rooted in puritanism's history the project was Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the new world--they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking yet rooted in puritanism's history the project was. Michael Winship takes us first to England, where he uncovers the roots of the puritans' republican ideals in the aspirations and struggles of Elizabethan Presbyterians. Faced with the twin tyrannies of Catholicism and the crown, Presbyterians turned to the ancient New Testament churches for guidance. What they discovered there--whether it existed or not--was a republican structure that suggested better models for governing than monarchy. The puritans took their ideals to Massachusetts, but they did not forge their godly republic alone. In this book, for the first time, the separatists' contentious, creative interaction with the puritans is given its due. Winship looks at the emergence of separatism and puritanism from shared origins in Elizabethan England, considers their split, and narrates the story of their reunion in Massachusetts. Out of the encounter between the separatist Plymouth pilgrims and the puritans of Massachusetts Bay arose Massachusetts Congregationalism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-330) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Puritans -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century Protestantism -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century Republicanism -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century Church and state -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century Puritans -- England -- History -- 16th century Puritans -- England -- History -- 17th century Church and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century Church and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Church and state Protestantism Puritans Republicanism SUBJECT Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century Massachusetts -- Church history -- 17th century Subject England Great Britain Massachusetts Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011026557 ISBN 9780674068445 0674068440 9780674065055 0674065050 0674069528 9780674069527

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