The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century

by Perry Miller

Overview

In The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, as well as successor The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614275886
Publisher:	Martino Fine Books
Publication date:	02/27/2014
Pages:	544
Sales rank:	576,526
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.21(d)

Table of Contents

PART 1: RELIGION AND LEARNING

1. The Augustinian Strain of Piety

2. The Practice of Piety

3. The Intellectual Character

4. The Intellectual Heritage

PART 2: COSMOLOGY

5. The Instrument of Reason

6. Knowledge

7. The Uses of Reason

8. Nature

PART 3: ANTHROPOLOGY

9. The Nature of Man

10. The Means of Conversion

11. Rhetoric

12. The Plain Style

PART 4: SOCIOLOGY

13. The Covenant of Grace

14. The Social Covenant

15. The Church Covenant

16. God's Controversy with New England

Appendix A. The Literature of Ramus' Logic in Europe

Appendix B. The Federal School of Theology

Notes

Index

Editorial Reviews

A fascinating and indispensable book.

Saturday Review

The New England Mind is an authoritative description of Puritanism, the most subtle and most fully coherent intellectual system which has ever functioned as the official code of an American regional society… The book is the best single illustration of what is meant by ‘the history of ideas’ as a method of dealing with American materials.

Henry Nash Smith

This classic work towers over the great mass of subsequent scholarship, and remains after forty years our single best work on American Puritanism… For many years to come every serious student of American Puritanism will still have to begin by reading The New England Mind.

James Hoopes

A magnificent book, the most illuminating and convincing interpretation of Puritanism that I know and a model example of intellectual historiography. Miller seems to possess a rare combination of gifts and acquired intellectual virtues—disciplined faithfulness to sources, philosophical insight and outlook, creative imagination.

H. Richard Niebuhr