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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie This post has been on half a day, and Andrew Myers still has not commented?  | Perry Miller wrote two books with this title: The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (1939) and The New England Mind: From Colony to Province (1953). Which one are you reading? Both are on my wish list. Miller is a respected historian, but should always be read with caution. Puritanism - questions about Perry Miller, William Haller, and Edmund Morgan | Respected by whom? Marsden's assessment of Miller (at least in part), "MIller's portrait is to Edwards what Hamlet is to the actual Danish prince, a triumph of the imagination."
That's the kiss of death from historian to historian. Marsden is by far the best living historian of the American church. I side with him.
And Schlesinger was equally worthless, IMHO. Factual accuracy was not his forte; intellectual axe grinding is. |
Be that as it may, I still think Schlesinger's chapter on Puritan New England was decent - definitely so coming from a secularist. In fact, I think in some aspects he treats the Puritans better than Chuck Colson did in a speech he gave at Harvard back in 1990, where he bent over backwards apologizing to his Harvard MBA audience for "puritan extremism and excesses."