Puritanism as a religious and intellectual movement: Puritan spirituality and predestination / Perry Miller -- Puritans and the life of the mind / Samuel Eliot Morison -- The conversion experience and church reform / Alan Simpson -- Puritanism as a political system: Economic interests and political conflict / James Truslow Adams -- The Massachusetts Bay Company and the people / Edmund S. Morgan -- Puritanism as an antidemocratic ideology / Vernon L. Parrington -- The Puritan concept of aristocracy / B. Katherine Brown -- The sources of law in Massachusetts / George Lee Haskins -- Church and States: Was Massachusetts a theocracy?: The rule of the priesthood / Brooks Adams -- Church and state reconsidered / Aaron B. Seidman -- "Declension" and its causes: The merchants and the Protestant ethic / Bernard Bailyn -- A changing sense of sin / Herbert W. Schneider -- The Half-Way Covenant reconsidered / Edmund S. Morgan -- Local freedom and Puritan control / Darrett B. Rutman -- Suggestions for additional reading (p. 119).
