BOOK I RICHARD MATHER (1596-1669): HISTORY
I The Founder
2 The Antichrist
3 The Church
4 The Word
BOOK 11 INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723): TYPOLOGY
5 An Unripened Puritan
6 The Invention of New England
7 The Church of the Pure
8 The Invisible World
9 The Word in Boston
10 Chiliasm
BOOK III COTTON MATHER (1663-1728): PROPHECY
11 The Virtuous Epicure
12 Christian Union and the Meaning of New England
13 The Psychology of Abasement
14 Christ and the Covenant
15 The Failure of Reformation
16 The Experimental Philosophy
17 The Experimental Religion
18 The Prophecy of Joel
19 "On the Borders of Paradise"
NOTES
A Note on the Sources
INDEX
Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley, and was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University in 1996-97. His books include Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (California, 1996) and The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (1982).
"A volume of considerable importance and great clarity for the study of Puritan thought."--"Saturday Review
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