Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, And A City On A Hill
by Michael P. Winship /
2012 / English / PDF
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Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the New
World—they 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.
Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the New
World—they 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
Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking yet
rooted in puritanism’s history the project was.
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 there—whether it existed or not—was a republican
structure that suggested better models for governing than
monarchy.
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 there—whether it existed or not—was 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.
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.