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Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the New Worldāthey created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth Pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking yet rooted in puritanism's history the project was.
Michael Winship takes us first to England, where he uncovers the roots of the puritans' republican ideals in the aspirations and struggles of Elizabethan Presbyterians. Faced with the twin tyrannies of Catholicism and the crown, Presbyterians turned to the ancient New Testament churches for guidance. What they discovered thereāwhether it existed or notāwas a republican structure that suggested better models for governing than monarchy.
The puritans took their ideals to Massachusetts, but they did not forge their godly republic alone. In this book, for the first time, the separatists' contentious, creative interaction with the puritans is given its due. Winship looks at the emergence of separatism and puritanism from shared origins in Elizabethan England, considers their split, and narrates the story of their reunion in Massachusetts. Out of the encounter between the separatist Plymouth Pilgrims and the puritans of Massachusetts Bay arose Massachusetts Congregationalism.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction: An Old Manās Tears for Godly Republicanism
- 1. The Rise and Bleeding Fall of Elizabethan Godly Republicanism
- 2. The Separatist Beginnings of Elizabethan Congregationalism and Presbyterianism
- 3. James I and a New Crisis of Antichristian Power
- 4. The Triumphs and Trials of the Lordās Free People
- 5. Christian Liberty at Plymouth Plantation
- 6. Separatism at Salem?
- 7. The Appeal of Massachusetts Congregationalism
- 8. Designing a Godly Republic
- 9. A City on a Hill
- 10. Godly Republicanismās Apocalypse
- Note on Usage
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index