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Admonition
Anne Hutchinson
Antichrist
Antinomian Controversy
Antinomianism
Arminianism
Author_Michael P. Winship
Baptists
Calvinism
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Censure
Christian
Christian Church
Christianity
Church of England
Church Order (Lutheran)
Clergy
Congregational church
Cotton Mather
Covenant theology
Damnation
Dissenter
Doctrine
English Reformation
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Excommunication
Ezekiel
God
Heresy
Heterodoxy
Imprisonment
John Coggeshall
John Wheelwright
John Winthrop
Justification (theology)
Laity
Lecture
Mary Dyer
Millenarianism
Monstrous birth
Mr.
Nathaniel Ward
Nonconformist
Orthodoxy
Persecution
Petitioner
Pharisees
Piety
Preacher
Presbyterianism
Prosecutor
Protestantism
Puritans
Quakers
Rebuke
Religion
Religiosity
Religious text
Repentance
Richard Mather
Righteousness
Sanctification
Sedition
Sermon
Short story
Synod
The Other Hand
Theology
Thomas Goodwin
Thomas Hooker
Thomas Shepard (minister)
Union with Christ
William Coddington
Product details
- ISBN 9780691089430
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex ongoing interaction of personalities and personal agendas and as a succession of short-term events with cumulative results. Previously neglected figures like Sir Henry Vane and John Wheelwright assume leading roles in the processes that nearly ended Massachusetts, while more familiar "hot Protestants" like John Cotton and Anne Hutchinson are relocated in larger frameworks. The book features a striking portrayal of the minister Thomas Shepard as an angry heresy-hunting militant, helping to set the volatile terms on which the disputes were conducted and keeping the flames of contention stoked even as he ostensibly attempted to quell them.
The first book-length treatment in forty years, Making Heretics locates its story in rich contexts, ranging from ministerial quarrels and negotiations over fine but bitterly contested theological points to the shadowy worlds of orthodox and unorthodox lay piety, and from the transatlantic struggles over the Massachusetts Bay Company's charter to the fraught apocalyptic geopolitics of the Reformation itself. An object study in the ways that puritanism generated, managed, and failed to manage diversity, Making Heretics carries its account on into England in the 1640s and 1650s and helps explain the differing fortunes of puritanism in the Old and New Worlds.
Michael P. Winship is Professor of History at the University of Georgia and the author of Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment.
