Puritan American Interpretations of Faith

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Discusses the writings of Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson. Concepts of God & His will on the world. Bradstreet's belief that marital happiness is a sign of eternal bliss in Heaven. Mather's writing on Witchery & detecting evil. Rowlandson's account of her kidnapping by Indians as the will of God.

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"In the writings of Puritan Americans Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson, we find detailed descriptions of experience which shine a light on the relationship between those details and the authors' belief in God and his will in the world. This study will examine that relationship, and will consider alternative explanations to the authors' religious interpretations.


In the poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband," Bradstreet employs her faith to move from an examination of the joy of her marriage to an appreciation of her belief that that marital happiness is but a sign and a beginning of what will be eternal bliss with him in Heaven;
Then while we live, in love let's so persevere,
That when we live no more we may live ever (Bradstreet..."

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