The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

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1986
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Robert Krick untangles the myriad accounts by participants who fought the battle on both sides, and he offers an illuminating portrait of the Confederate general commanding his troops under the extraordinary pressures of combat.

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Robert Krick untangles the myriad accounts by participants who fought the battle on both sides, and he offers an illuminating portrait of the Confederate general commanding his troops under the extraordinary pressures of combat.

$60.29

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
Published: 15 Feb 1986
ISBN 10: 0807841455
ISBN 13: 9780807841457

Media Reviews

This handsome, well-written book provides perhaps the most enlightening report we have had on New England Puritanism. It persuasively describes piety as the operating force of the religious phenomenon that has been the subject of so much investigation.
--Everett Emerson, American Literature
Hambrick-Stowe's central and stunning achievement in this book is his capacity for describing clearly and even movingly the dynamic of Puritan piety. This book will be widely read and discussed by historians of American religious history, but it ought to be read as well by pastors and lay people. It will tell anyone who delves into it something about themselves and even more about the nature of the Christian life, and it does so in clear, graceful prose.
-- Theology Today
Hambrick-Stowe shatters the popular image of neurotic Puritans searching anxiously, almost pathetically, for signs of salvation. The men and women who appear in this book derived joy, excitement, even sensual fulfillment from the contemplation of God.
--T. H. Breen, The Historian

Author Bio

Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe is Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Seminary, and professor of Christian history at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Illinois. He is the author of several books, including Charles G. Finney and the Spirit of American Evangelicalism.