The Saving Remnant: RELIGION AND THE SETTLING OF NEW ENGLAND

The great flight that brought colonists in the 1600s to what would become New England was a resettlement that had not only a geographical and spiritual impact, but an important historical impact as well. The influences of the settlers' English origins, and the fact that various religious groups inhabited specific areas of New England, strongly shaped American history through the 1800s and beyond.

Cedric Cowing demonstrates that there were two Englands, one evangelistic and one rationalisti...