The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather. [Library of Religious Biography]

Smolinski himself will be publishing a more detailed intellectual biography of Mather in the near future. [...]Rick Kennedy's lively take on Cotton Mather's extraordinary life is very welcome. Deeply involved in provincial politics, he advocated a brand of libertarianism that he called &qu...

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Published inThe Catholic Historical Review Vol. 102; no. 3; pp. 640 - 642
Main Author Minkema, Kenneth P.
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington The Catholic University of America Press 01.07.2016
Catholic University of America Press
Subjects
American
Biographies
Evangelicalism
Mather, Increase (1639-1723)
Middlekauff, Robert
Politics
Religion
New York
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Summary:Smolinski himself will be publishing a more detailed intellectual biography of Mather in the near future. [...]Rick Kennedy's lively take on Cotton Mather's extraordinary life is very welcome. Deeply involved in provincial politics, he advocated a brand of libertarianism that he called "eleutherian," meaning "freedom lover" (p. 28), which for him was an essential component of what he called "the evangelical interest" (p. x), a cause to which he devoted his life.
ISSN:0008-8080
1534-0708