The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan MassachusettsA radical new interpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, The Making of an American Thinking Class envisions the Bay colony as a seventeenth century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological 'cells' and authority was restricted to an educated elite of ministers and magistrates. From there Staloff offers a broadened conception of the interstices of political, social, and intellectual authority in Puritan Massachusetts and beyond, arguing that ideologies, as well as ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious, and often class-conscious, thinkers. |
Contents
The Struggle for the Company | 3 |
Cultural Authority and the Puritan Thinking Class | 11 |
2 John Cotton Roger Williams and the Problem of Charisma | 26 |
3 John Cotton and the Dialectic of Antinomian Dissent | 40 |
4 Antinomianism Defeated | 55 |
5 Ordering the OneParty Regime | 73 |
6 Establishing Orthodoxy | 91 |
7 From the Cambridge Platform to the HalfWay Covenant | 114 |
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