Hartford Puritanism
Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and Their Terrifying God
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 April 2015
- ISBN 9780190212520
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 168x239x40 mm
- Weight 785 g
- Language English 0
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Hartford Puritanism argues for a new paradigm of New England Puritanism, one where Hartford's founding ministers, Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone, both fully embraced and even harshened Calvin's double predestination.
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Although their statues grace downtown Hartford, Connecticut, few tourists are aware that the founding ministers of Hartford's First Church, Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone (after whose English birthplace the city is named), carried a distinctive version of Puritanism to the Connecticut wilderness. Shaped by Protestant interpretations of the writings of Saint Augustine, and largely developed during the ministers' years at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and as "godly" lecturers in English parish churches, Hartford's church order diverged in significant ways from its counterpart in the churches of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Focusing especially on Hooker, Baird Tipson explores the contributions of William Perkins, Alexander Richardson, and John Rogers to his thought and practice, the art and content of his preaching, and his determination to define and impose a distinctive notion of conversion on his hearers. Hooker's colleague Samuel Stone composed The Whole Body of Divinity, a comprehensive treatment of his thought (and the first systematic theology written in the American colonies). Stone's Whole Body, virtually unknown to scholars, not only provides the indispensable intellectual context for the religious development of early Connecticut but also offers a more comprehensive description of the Puritanism of early New England than anything previously available.
Hartford Puritanism argues for a new paradigm of New England Puritanism, one where Hartford's founding ministers, Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone, both fully embraced and even harshened Calvin's double predestination.
[a] thorough yet beautifully written work ... Historical theology students in seminaries and divinity schools as well as scholars of puritanism and early American religious history would benefit greatly from this book.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter I: Creating the Thomas Hooker Brand
Chapter II: Hooker and Stone in England, Holland, and New England
Chapter III: The Reformation of Manners in Chelmsford
Chapter IV: Why People Want What They Want: St. Augustine of Hippo and His God
Chapter V: The Search for Alternatives to Extreme Augustinianism
Chapter VI: The Terrifying God of William Perkins, Thomas Hooker, and Samuel Stone
Chapter VII: Richardsonian Ramism
Chapter VIII: Preaching the Gospel in Chelmsford and Hartford
Chapter IX: Learning How To Imagine Conversion
Chapter X: Hooker and Stone Preach Conversion
Chapter XI: Gaining Assurance of Salvation
Chapter XII: Identifying the Saints
Chapter XIII: Concluding Reflections
Appendix: Hooker's Metaphors of Conversion
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Index
