Defending Puritan Faith in Colonial America
Reflections on Cotton Mather's Magnalia ChristiAmericana
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Cotton Mather was one of the most influentialreligious leaders in early America. He assumedresponsibility for sustaining the reforming zeal ofthe Puritan movement begun by his ancestors, who leftEngland to establish an idealised society in NewEngland. As the seventeenth century drew to a close,the Calvinistic principles on which the earlycommunities had been based were no longer adhered toquite so strictly, and Mather saw it as his religiousduty to revitalise Puritanism and stop the degeneracythat he saw all around him. His Magnalia ChristiAmericana was an enormously ambitious work with whichM...
Cotton Mather was one of the most influentialreligious leaders in early America. He assumedresponsibility for sustaining the reforming zeal ofthe Puritan movement begun by his ancestors, who leftEngland to establish an idealised society in NewEngland. As the seventeenth century drew to a close,the Calvinistic principles on which the earlycommunities had been based were no longer adhered toquite so strictly, and Mather saw it as his religiousduty to revitalise Puritanism and stop the degeneracythat he saw all around him. His Magnalia ChristiAmericana was an enormously ambitious work with whichMather hoped to demonstrate to the world God'ssupport for the Puritan cause in New England, andthus rekindle the Reformation throughout Europe andthe rest of the civilised world.One of the issues this study will consider is to whatextent Cotton Mather achieved his purpose. It willconsider in detail the language he used to expresshis beliefs and, like him, taking the Bible as aguide, try to assess the value of his achievement.His accuracy as a historian will also be consideredand an attempt will be made to understand therelevance of his work to a modern audience.
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