I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities. Contributions of continental Calvinism. The Scotch-Irish. The toleration act -- II. Transplanting Anglicanism. Anglican establishments in America. New England. In the Quaker colonies. The commissaries. The S.P.G. Agitation for an American bishop -- III. The swarming of the Puritans. Types of English Puritans. Plymouth. The great migration. The Massachusetts rebels and the dispersion of the Puritans. Puritan theology. The changing religious scene. Attempts to curb change. The lighter side -- IV. The Baptist and Quaker elements. Rise of the English Baptists. Roger Williams and the beginnings of Rhode Island. The first Baptist churches in America. Persecution. Baptists in the middle colonies. The first Quaker missionaries to America. The martyrs. Spread of Quakerism. The Quaker colonies. Quaker Organization -- Roman Catholic contributions. The lords Baltimore and the founding of Maryland. Lord Baltimore's controversy with the Jesuits. Early Catholic activity in Maryland. Protestants and Catholics in Maryland. Colonial Catholocism after 1700 -- Trade and religion in New Netherland. Religious toleration in Holland. Origins of the Dutch church. The Dutch church in New Netherland. New Sweden and the Lutheran church. The churches under English rule -- The Germans find a haven in the new world. The Mennonites. The Dunkers. The Ephrata Society. The Moravians. The Schwenkfelders. The German churches. The German reformed. The Lutherans -- The Presbyterian Irish. Ulster becomes a Presbyterian stronghold. Scotch-Irish contributions. Growth of colonial Presbyterianism. Doctrine and discipline. Training a colonial ministry -- Religion reaches the masses: the great awakenings. The middle colony revival. The New England awakenings. The southern awakenings. The by-products of the great awakening -- America and religious liberty. Church and state in post-reformation Europe. Religious minorities in the colonies. The example of Rhode Island. Contributions of the proprietary colonies. The Baptists. The unchurched liberals.
xiii, 367 p. ;24 cm.
Book Details
Author
Sweet, William Warren
Call No.
BR520 .S88 1965
LCCN
65017183
Notes
Bibliography Note: Bibliography: p. 341-356.
Publication Info: New York,Cooper Square Publishers,1965 [c1942]