Puritan Dilemma The Story of John Winthrop (Library of American Biography Series), The

by Morgan, Edmund S.

• ISBN13: 9780321478061
• ISBN10: 0321478061
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-05
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Award-wining historian Edmund Morgan relates the hardships and triumphs of the Puritan movement through this vivid account of its most influential leader, John Winthrop. This indispensable text follows Winthrop from when he caught the fever of Puritanism in England to the dilemma that still lingers in the air of Democracy today: what responsibility does a religious person owe to society?

Author Biography

Edmund S. Morgan's biography of John Winthrop follows the Puritans' most influential leader as he catches the fever of Puritanism in England, travels to the New World, and establishes himself as a central political figure and twelve-time governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop's struggles and accomplishments illuminate the puritan migration and the Puritans' attempts to build a new type of society in the New World. Winthrop and the Puritans faced a dilemma that is still pertinent today: what responsibility does a religious person owe to society?

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	ix
Author's Preface	xi
The Taming of the Heart	1	(14)
Evil and Declining Times	15	(14)
A Shelter and a Hiding Place	29	(12)
The Way to a New England	41	(8)
Survival	49	(14)
A Special Commission	63	(14)
A Due Form of Government	77	(16)
Leniency Rebuked	93	(14)
Separatism Unleashed	107	(18)
Seventeenth-Century Nihilism	125	(20)
The New England Way	145	(18)
New England or Old	163	(10)
Foreign Affairs	173	(20)
Study and Discussion Questions	193	(8)
A Note on the Sources	201	(6)
Index	207