To Live Ancient Lives
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To Live Ancient Lives

The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism

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To Live Ancient Lives

The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism

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To Live Ancient Lives signals a sharp redirection of Puritan studies. It provides the first comprehensive study of Puritan primitivism, defined as the drive to recover and return to church and society the ordinances of biblical times. This work traces a campaign to purify English Christianity of postapostolic accretions from the Henrician Reformation to the Great Migration of 1630 and through the first five decades in New England.

Taking their bearings from a special past, Puritans were not concerned with the future in a modern sense. The Great Migration was not intended as an errand to reform the world or inaugurate the millennium, but as a flight to a free world in which long-lost biblical rules and ways could be reinstituted.

Drawing on hundreds of sermons and tracts, Bozeman demonstrates how the search for the long-lost helps to identify Puritanism as a discrete order within Protestant dissent, and he locates that movement within the larger spectrum of restorationist Christian movements and of Western mythology.

Originally published in 1988.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. To Live Ancient Lives The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One: Foundations of Puritan Primitivism
  9. Chapter Two: The Protestant Epistemology
  10. Chapter Three: The Errand into the Wilderness Reconsidered
  11. Chapter Four: Ecclesiastical Re-formation in Earliest New England
  12. Chapter Five: Political Mimesis: The Good Ruler and “Moses His Judicials”
  13. Chapter Six: First Phases of Puritan Millennialism
  14. Chapter Seven: John Cotton and End-Time Progress
  15. Chapter Eight: John Eliot and the Civil Part of the Kingdom of Christ
  16. Chapter Nine: The Jeremiad: Shifting Ideals of Covenantal Maintenance, 1630–1663
  17. Chapter Ten: New England as Primordium: The New Traditionalism of the American Jeremiad, 1663–1675
  18. Chapter Eleven: Reflections upon the Primitivist Dimension
  19. Appendix 1: Primitivism and Myth
  20. Appendix 2: Religious Declension in Seventeenth-Century New England
  21. Appendix 3: Separatists and Quakers
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index