Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-268) and index.
Contents
Prologue : the struggle for the company -- The creation of the New England Way : cultural authority and the Puritan thinking class -- John Cotton, Roger Williams, and the problem of charisma -- John Cotton and the dialectic of Antinomian dissent -- Antinomianism defeated -- Ordering the one-party regime -- Establishing orthodoxy -- From the Cambridge Platform to the half-way covenant -- The restoration and the politics of declension -- Increase Mather and the decline of cutural domination.
