Table of Contents

BOOK I RICHARD MATHER (1596-1669): HISTORY

I The Founder 
2 The Antichrist 
3 The Church 
4 The Word 

BOOK 11 INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723): TYPOLOGY

5 An Unripened Puritan 
6 The Invention of New England 
7 The Church of the Pure 
8 The Invisible World 
9 The Word in Boston 
10 Chiliasm 

BOOK III COTTON MATHER (1663-1728): PROPHECY

11 The Virtuous Epicure 
12 Christian Union and the Meaning of New England 
13 The Psychology of Abasement 
14 Christ and the Covenant 
15 The Failure of Reformation 
16 The Experimental Philosophy
17 The Experimental Religion 
18 The Prophecy of Joel 
19 "On the Borders of Paradise" 

NOTES 

A Note on the Sources 

INDEX 

About the Author

Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley, and was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University in 1996-97. His books include Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (California, 1996) and The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (1982).

Reviews

"A volume of considerable importance and great clarity for the study of Puritan thought."--"Saturday Review