Puritan
What Cotton Mather would tell the ‘Jesus is my vaccine’ crowd
By Peter Manseau — April 30, 2020
(RNS) — When smallpox hit Massachusetts, the Puritan clergyman began to rethink his theology of catastrophe, even when doing so meant breaking ranks with his country’s religious elite.
Let’s celebrate the Pilgrims (the Puritans not so much)
By Mark Silk — November 22, 2017
(RNS) — The Pilgrims practiced religious tolerance. The Puritans — as 'The Scarlet Letter' and Salem witch trials attest — did not. (COMMENTARY)
Jonathan Edwards’ works made available for free as interest in Puritanism surges
By Jonathan Merritt — February 3, 2015
The release of Edwards’ work comes at a moment of renewed interest in the preacher. But can a message that focuses on the damnation of sinners and torments of hell awaken the modern masses like it did for Edwards and others?
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