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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world |
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Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world.
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1. Re-reading, Re-interpreting, and Recovering Priceless Texts -- 2. Close-Reading the Shepard Manuscripts -- 3. "Venture and Try": Women Taking the Ultimate Leap of Faith -- 4. The Shepard Context -- 5. Heroic Souls: Reading the Cambridge Women's Records -- 6. Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book presents a revolutionary new reading of manuscript records left by puritan minister Thomas Shepard in Cambridge, Massachusetts that have been studied for decades as his on-the-spot recording of oral relations of faith delivered by candidates for church membership. This book proves that these records are not relations, but Shepard's personal record of sessions of trial--meetings with candidates still working out their spiritual seeking. New transcriptions of the original manuscript records, and corresponding never-before-published writing by Shepard, dispel much of the confusion produced by the published transcriptions. Close-readings of the manuscripts, contrasted with the published transcriptions, set the stage for a new understanding of puritan spiritual preparation in Shepard's Cambridge church. The book concludes with a challenge to the negative reading of the women's records that is central to established scholarship, revealing their powerful, confident spiritual identities and voices |
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1. Re-reading, Re-interpreting, and Recovering Priceless Texts2. Close-Reading the Shepard Manuscripts3. 'Venture and Try': Women Taking the Ultimate Leap of Faith4. The Shepard Context5. Heroic Souls: Reading the Cambridge Women's Records6. Conclusion |
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Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.
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Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649 fast |
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Church archives -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
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Congregational churches -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 17th century
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Church membership -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 17th century -- Sources
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Church archives
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Church membership
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Congregational churches
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Cambridge (Mass.) -- Church history -- 17th century
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Massachusetts -- Cambridge
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Church history
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History
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030508456 |
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3030508455 |
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