Huguenot Refugees and the Meaning of Charity in Early New England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4875255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrian Chastain Weimer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 365-397 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009640717000580 |
| OpenAlex | W2744414374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
Huguenot suffering inspired fast days, prayer meetings, and collections among Congregationalists in Massachusetts and Plymouth in the 1680s. Ministers used a variety of frameworks to motivate compassion for the French refugees. Some preachers considered the French plight to be the result of an Antichristian attack, one that might soon spread to New England. Others assumed Huguenot suffering generally was a result of their sinful neglect of the Sabbath, and that compassion and honor should extend to those who suffered cheerfully while upholding disciplined purity. As suspicions mounted that there were French Catholic spies within the refugee communities and local harassment increased, the prominent Huguenot minister Ezekiel Carré advocated an alternate framework for Christian charity. In his remarkable sermon,The Charitable Samaritan, Carré shifted the meaning of charity from an apocalyptic framework to one centered on active mercy for the wounded regardless of sect or nationality. A friend of Carré's and Huguenot supporter, Cotton Mather incorporated Carré's interpretation of the Samaritan story into his magisterial Bible commentary. Though always contested, Huguenot practices and rhetoric broadened the conversation over the meaning of charity in early New England
Carr · Compassion · Honor · Immigration · Interpretation (philosophy) · Meaning (existential) · Nationality · Political science · Refugee · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
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The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts
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The Practice of Piety
Their Solitary Way
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The Protestant Moment
Catholicism in Rhode Island
The Huguenots in America
Between Eden and Empire
The Founding of Massachusetts
Puritans and the Poor
Irresistible Compassion
Sympathetic Puritans
The Mathers
Huguenot Merchants and the Protestant International in the Seventeenth Century
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |