TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Charles L.
TI  - God's caress: the psychology of Puritan religious experience 
SN  - 0195039734
AV  - BX9354.2 .C64 1986
U1  - 248.2O COH 19
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Puritans
KW  - Religious life
KW  - New England
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Puritans -- New England -- Religious life
KW  - Conversion -- Christianity
KW  - Christianity -- Psychology
KW  - Spirituality -- History -- 16th century
KW  - Spirituality -- History -- 17th century
KW  - New England -- Church history
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - Puritains
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Nouvelle-Angleterre
KW  - Spiritualit�e
KW  - Histoire des doctrines
KW  - 16e si�ecle
KW  - 17e si�ecle
KW  - fast
KW  - Puritanismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Religionspsychologie
KW  - Spiritualit�at
KW  - Church history
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Puritanism, 1500-1700
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-289) and index; PART I. THE CALL OF THE PREACHERS -- 1. Original Debility -- 2. Covenant Psychology -- 3. The Way of Salvation, the Power of Faith -- 4. The Saints Zealous in Love and Labor -- PART II. THE CRY OF THE FAITHFUL -- 5. Joining the Society of Saints -- 6. Echoes of the Preachers' Call -- 7. Tales of Grace -- 8. The Application of Conversion
N2  - Although scripture demands rebirth for all of God's chosen people, the actual experience of religious conversion is largely determined by the complex interaction between individuals and clergy. This book focuses on the Puritan experience of conversion, which culminated in the celebration of strength liberated for divine purposes, to examine how ministers elaborated the psychological imperatives of faith and their listeners modified and internalized them. Looking at firsthand accounts of personal conversion as well as at sermons and tracts, Cohen discusses how clergy and laity together defined the norms of religious experience, how the Bible influenced Puritan self-perception, and how theology molded the behavior of Saints in a covenanted community. Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians, this study advances Max Weber's discussion of the Saint's psychology of work and illuminated the function of rebirth in Puritan culture as both a religious and a psychological phenomenon
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01343
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/85021843-d.html
ER  -