Power and the pulpit in Puritan New England /

For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to expre...

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Main Author: Elliott, Emory, 1942-2009 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1975]
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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