Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America

ISBN-13: 9780521403818 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 276 str.

Avihu Zakai; Anthony Fletcher; John Guy

Opis

By analyzing the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to America, the author shows how Puritans believed that their removal to New England fulfilled prophetic apocalyptic and eschatological visions. Based on a close reading of Puritan texts, the book explains how Puritans interpreted their migration as a prophetic revelatory event in the context of a sacred, ecclesiastical history, and why they considered it as the climax of the history of salvation and redemption.

Recenzje

"...an intriguing, challenging book with a close textual analysis and a focus on 'geographies of the mind' that bear important implications for understanding early Purital society and its putative theocracy." Jon Butler, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The creation of sacred time; 2. The creation of sacred space I; 3. The creation of sacred space II; 4. The creation of sacred space III; 5. The creation of sacred errand; 6. The creation of a sacred Christian society; 7. The creation of a holy Christian commonwealth; Index.