TY - BOOK ID - 590656 TI - The Puritans in America : a narrative anthology AU - Heimert, Alan AU - Delbanco, Andrew PY - 1985 SN - 0674740653 0674740661 0674038495 PB - Cambridge Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - Puritans KW - Puritains KW - Precisians KW - Church polity KW - Congregationalism KW - Puritan movements KW - Calvinism KW - Doctrines. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:590656 AB - Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Cromwell called "a poor, cold, and useless" place--where they created a body of ideas and aspirations that were essential in the shaping of American religion, politics, and culture. In a felicitous blend of documents and narrative Heimert and Delbanco recapture the sweep and restless change of Puritan thought from its incipient Americanism through its dominance in New England society to its fragmentation in the face of dissent from within and without. ER -