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God's caress : the psychology of Puritan religious experience /

by Cohen, Charles L., Published by : Oxford University Press, (New York :) Physical details: xiv, 310 pages ; 25 cm ISBN:0195039734; 9780195039733; 0195056876; 9780195056877.
Subject(s): 1500-1699 | Puritans -- Religious life -- New England. | Conversion -- Christianity. | Christianity -- Psychology. | Spirituality -- History -- 16th century. | Spirituality -- History -- 17th century. | Puritans -- New England -- Religious life. | Conversion -- Christianity. | Christianity -- Psychology. | Spirituality -- History -- 16th century. | Spirituality -- History -- 17th century. | New England -- Church history. | Conversion. | Christianisme -- Psychologie. | Puritains -- Vie religieuse -- Nouvelle-Angleterre. | Spiritualit�e -- Histoire des doctrines -- 16e si�ecle. | Spiritualit�e -- Histoire des doctrines -- 17e si�ecle. | Christianity -- Psychology. | Conversion -- Christianity. | Puritans -- Religious life. | Spirituality. | Puritanismus | Religionspsychologie | Spiritualit�at | New England -- Church history. | Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Histoire religieuse. | New England. | New England -- Puritanism, 1500-1700. -- Psychological aspects | Church history. | History.
Year: 1986
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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.

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.

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