Tenacious of Their Liberties the Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts
- List Price: $175.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
- Publish date: 11/01/1998
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This study approaches the Puritan experience in church government from the perspective of both the pew and the pulpit. For the past ten years, James Cooper has immersed himself in Local manuscript church records. These previously untapped documents provide a fascinating glimpse of lay-clerical relations in colonial Massachusetts, and reveal that ordinary churchgoers shaped the development of Congregational practices as much as the clerical and elite personages who for so tong have populated histories of the period. Cooper's new findings both challenge existing models of church hierarchy and offer a new dimension to our understanding of the origins of New England democracy.
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