To Live Ancient Lives
The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism
Theodore Dwight Bozeman
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Published: 01/2014
Pages: 424
Subject: Religion
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469600093
DESCRIPTION
Taking their bearings from a special past, Puritans were not concerned with the future in a modern sense. The Great Migration was not intended as an errand to reform the world or inaugurate the millennium, but as a flight to a free world in which long-lost biblical rules and ways could be reinstituted.
Drawing on hundreds of sermons and tracts, Bozeman demonstrates how the search for the long-lost helps to identify Puritanism as a discrete order within Protestant dissent, and he locates that movement within the larger spectrum of restorationist Christian movements and of Western mythology.
Originally published in 1988.
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