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Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard's Church in Cambridge, 1638-1649: Heroic Souls

Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard's Church in Cambridge, 1638-1649: Heroic Souls

Rogers-Stokes, Lori

Hardcover

Series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World

Religion General General United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3030508447
ISBN13: 9783030508449
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 24 2020
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book presents a revolutionary new reading of manuscript records left by puritan minister Thomas Shepard in Cambridge, Massachusetts that have been studied for decades as his on-the-spot recording of oral relations of faith delivered by candidates for church membership. This book proves that these records are not relations, but Shepard's personal record of sessions of trial--meetings with candidates still working out their spiritual seeking. New transcriptions of the original manuscript records, and corresponding never-before-published writing by Shepard, dispel much of the confusion produced by the published transcriptions. Close-readings of the manuscripts, contrasted with the published transcriptions, set the stage for a new understanding of puritan spiritual preparation in Shepard's Cambridge church. The book concludes with a challenge to the negative reading of the women's records that is central to established scholarship, revealing their powerful, confident spiritual identities and voices.

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