The precisianist strain : disciplinary religion & antinomian backlash in Puritanism to 1638 / Theodore Dwight Bozeman
Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Disciplinary themes in the English Reformation -- Disciplinary themes of the Presbyterian movement -- Discipline as stabilizer in shifting times -- Richard Greenham and the first Protestant pietism -- Piety and self-management after Richard Greenham -- Introspection and self-control -- Cases of conscience -- More piety and more doubt -- Taking stock : piety's gains and costs -- John Eaton and the antinomian first wave -- John Cotton : antinomian adumbrations -- John Cotton in America : hypocrisy and crisis -- John Cotton in America : transcendent gifts and operations -- John Cotton and the American antinomians -- The construction of American antinomianism
Summary
In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word "Puritan," he says, accurately depicts a major and often obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline
