Theodore Dwight Bozeman: 3 books
The Precisianist Strain
Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
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. The Precisianist...
To Live Ancient Lives
The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
To Live Ancient Lives signals a sharp redirection of Puritan studies. It provides the first comprehensive study of Puritan primitivism, defined as the drive to recover and return to church and society the ordinances of biblical times. This work traces a campaign to purify English Christianity of postapostolic...
Protestants in an Age of Science
The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian...