Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment

by Michael P. Winship

Book Overview

Observing that intellectual changes within late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts Puritan culture closely paralleled changes within Puritan culture in England, Michael Winship re-examines one of the more nettlesome issues in the intellectual history of early New England. How did the logic Puritanism square itself with the increasingly hostile assumptions of the early Enlightenment? And, faced with a new intellectual world whose parameters were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801863767
• ISBN13: 9780801863769
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"