Perry Miller
Born
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
February 25, 1905
Died
December 09, 1963
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Errand into the Wilderness
6 editions
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1956
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The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
7 editions
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1939
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Transcendentalists: An Anthology
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8 editions
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1950
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The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry
6 editions
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1982
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The New England Mind: From Colony to Province
13 editions
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published
1953
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Jonathan Edwards
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4 editions
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published
1949
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The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings
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1938
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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Books One Through Three
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1965
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The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene
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1955
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The American Transcendentalists Their Prose & Poetry
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“There was, however, one consequence of the original doctrine of regeneration that was eventually to accelerate the development of moralism: Puritans contended that regeneration was usually an ascertainable experience, that men could tell whether or not they were in a state of grace. With this conclusion they went beyond Augustine, for he would never have said point-blank that the presence of grace could be verified by external symptoms he would never have claimed that a man himself could positively know whether he had it or not, much less that a set of impartial examiners could discover the true state of his soul. Yet Augustinian theology, in other hands than Augustine’s, tends toward this deduction which the Reformation made explicit.”
― The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
― The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
“hence the conclusion is frequently implied and often explicitly drawn that the Puritans looked upon philosophy as a sensual indulgence, upon classical authors as contemptible heathens, upon science as a work of the Devil and a hindrance to faith. Neither the friends nor the foes of the Puritans have shown much interest in their intellects, for it has been assumed that the Puritan mind was too weighted down by the load of dogma to be worth considering in and for itself.”
― The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
― The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
“Cotton added, “zeale is but a wilde-fire without knowledge.”
― The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
― The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
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