Michael P Winship
Biographic Data
| ID | 1001527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael P Winship |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael P |
| FAMILY NAME | Winship |
| SIGNATURE | WINSHIP M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hidden in Plain Sight
The 1648 Cambridge Platform, Congregationalists' first, guided New England Congregationalist church practice well into the next century. Yet the synodical deliberations that shaped the platform remain largely a closed book. Were the contents of all three preparatory platform drafts known, a baseline could be established for inferring those deliberations. But it has long been taken as a given that John Cotton's draft is missing.The now-recovered d…
Hot Protestants
For God, King, and People
For God, King, and People is intended as a corrective to the common practice of referring to colonization as “settling.” For Haskell, that usage “suggests a simple act of expanding the state’s sovereign integrity into new provincial societies and frontier economic zones” (p. 16). Haskell claims that this perspective is anachronistic since in the earliest period of English colonization, the concept of the sovereign state did not exist. Polities “w…
Did John Davenport's Church Require Conversion Narratives for Church Admission
Two scholars debate whether John Davenport, pastor of the New Haven church (1638–67), required that a prospective church member offer a personal account of the workings of God's saving grace in him/her to be granted church membership, a matter that, in its broader implications, has significant importance for puritan studies
The Rainborowes
Journal Article The Rainborowes: One Family's Quest to Build a New England Get access Adrian Tinniswood. (New York: Basic, 2013. xiii, 366 pp. $28.99.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Page 553, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau410 Published: 01 September 2014
What Puritan Guarantee
What Puritan Guarantee? Michael P. Winship (bio) In The Puritan Origins of the American Self Sacvan Bercovitch claims that American Puritans believed God had made a "long promised summons" to them, "as irreversible as it was irresistible, to erect New Jerusalem in America" (97). Eventually, their "speculations about the millennial site [of the New Jerusalem] shifted from New England to, vaguely, America itself " (xviii). This divine irreversible …
Martyrs' Mirror
Adrian Chastain Weimer begins Martyrs' Mirror with a sketch of the English Protestant martyr tradition. Fueled by the Marian martyrs, this tradition assumed that Antichrist would persecute the true church until his kingdom finally fell, and the tradition passed over to New England with many consequences. It heightened local religious conflicts by raising their stakes. Perhaps, Weimer suggests, in the long term it helped bring about practical tole…
Defining Puritanism in Restoration England
Around 1670, a group of moderate Restoration puritans published extended explanations of their movement at a particularly tense and pregnant time, when the recently erected, unstable barriers between the institutional Church of England and puritanism were under extreme pressure. Their efforts are important and revealing for their analyses of Restoration puritanism's contemporary situation and its historical roots. These publications, however, hav…
Algernon Sidney's Calvinist Republicanism
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Freeborn (Puritan) Englishmen and Slavish Subjection
Historians are reluctant to find links between puritanism and the constitutional struggles of late Tudor and early Stuart England. “Legal/constitutional” and “religious,” it is now usually argued, are distinct categories. Scholars might allow that these categories “fused,” but only in the pressure cooker political atmosphere of the 1620s, when it was widely feared that a popish plot was undermining Protestantism and limited monarchy. “Freeborn (P…
Puritans, Politics, and Lunacy
Michael P. Winship, Puritans, Politics, and Lunacy: The Copinger-Hacket Conspiracy as the Apotheosis of Elizabethan Presbyterianism, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 2007), pp. 345-369
The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson
Puritans and Their Discontents
Briget Cooke and the Art of Godly Female Self-Advancement
Briget Cooke was an obscure early Stuart woman from a middling background who is memorialized in a manuscript spiritual biography. The biography, besides being a rare, extended portrayal of the piety of an ordinary puritan layperson, provides an unusual glimpse into the practices of godly lay sociability and the ways in which a woman could manipulate those practices to her advantage. The manuscript not only illuminates areas of godly piety diffic…
Were There Any Puritans in New England
Weak Christians, Backsliders, and Carnal Gospelers
The great pearl of Reformed piety, assurance of salvation, eluded Richard Rogers, Essex presbyterian activist, in theearly 1580s. Rogers "languished long" in "unsettledness in my life" "untill wofull experience" drove him to search out a more reliable method of obtaining a steady assurance. He decided that only a steady, highly reflective, and rigorous course of life could keep assurance constant. To that end, Rogers devised "a more certain manne…
The Most Glorious Church in the World”
The dominant historiographical trend in Puritan studies, started by Patrick Collinson, stresses the conservative nature of Puritanism. It notes Puritanism's strong opposition to the separatist impulses of some of the godly and the ways in which it was successfully integrated into the Church of England until the innovations of Charles I and Archbishop Laud. Far from being revolutionary, Puritanism was able to contain the disruptive energies of the…
William Pynchon's The Jewes Synagogue
Seers of God
Seers of God
Journal Article Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment. By Michael P. Winship. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv, 225 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5137-8.) Get access Marilyn J. Westerkamp Marilyn J. Westerkamp University of California, Santa Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 19…
Contesting Control of Orthodoxy among the Godly
A ROUND the end of i652, William Pynchon slipped out of Massachusetts, his home since i630, and returned to England. Pynchon, charter member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, commercial entrepreneur, and founder of Springfield, was also a convicted heretic and now a fugitive from justice. His theological crimes are arcane enough to twentieth-century scholars that they have never been fully explicated or properly placed in context. Yet his offendi…
Seers of God
Prodigies, Puritanism, and the Perils of Natural Philosophy
IT was no ordinary cabbage root that Cotton Mather examined in Boston in the summer of i688. One of its branches looked like a cutlass, another like a rapier, and a third like an Indian club. Such freaks of nature, or prodigies, as they were called, boded no good: disruptions of the human sphere soon followed disruptions of the natural sphere. This was not the first ominous cabbage seen in New England, and Mather later grasped its meaning, as wel…
Cotton Mather, Astrologer
Freeborn (Puritan) Englishmen and Slavish Subjection
Historians are reluctant to find links between puritanism and the constitutional struggles of late Tudor and early Stuart England. “Legal/constitutional” and “religious,” it is now usually argued, are distinct categories. Scholars might allow that these categories “fused,” but only in the pressure cooker political atmosphere of the 1620s, when it was widely feared that a popish plot was undermining Protestantism and limited monarchy. “Freeborn (P…
Defining Puritanism in Restoration England
Around 1670, a group of moderate Restoration puritans published extended explanations of their movement at a particularly tense and pregnant time, when the recently erected, unstable barriers between the institutional Church of England and puritanism were under extreme pressure. Their efforts are important and revealing for their analyses of Restoration puritanism's contemporary situation and its historical roots. These publications, however, hav…
Weak Christians, Backsliders, and Carnal Gospelers
The great pearl of Reformed piety, assurance of salvation, eluded Richard Rogers, Essex presbyterian activist, in theearly 1580s. Rogers "languished long" in "unsettledness in my life" "untill wofull experience" drove him to search out a more reliable method of obtaining a steady assurance. He decided that only a steady, highly reflective, and rigorous course of life could keep assurance constant. To that end, Rogers devised "a more certain manne…
What Puritan Guarantee
What Puritan Guarantee? Michael P. Winship (bio) In The Puritan Origins of the American Self Sacvan Bercovitch claims that American Puritans believed God had made a "long promised summons" to them, "as irreversible as it was irresistible, to erect New Jerusalem in America" (97). Eventually, their "speculations about the millennial site [of the New Jerusalem] shifted from New England to, vaguely, America itself " (xviii). This divine irreversible …
Seers of God
Journal Article Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment. By Michael P. Winship. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv, 225 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5137-8.) Get access Marilyn J. Westerkamp Marilyn J. Westerkamp University of California, Santa Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 19…
Martyrs' Mirror
Adrian Chastain Weimer begins Martyrs' Mirror with a sketch of the English Protestant martyr tradition. Fueled by the Marian martyrs, this tradition assumed that Antichrist would persecute the true church until his kingdom finally fell, and the tradition passed over to New England with many consequences. It heightened local religious conflicts by raising their stakes. Perhaps, Weimer suggests, in the long term it helped bring about practical tole…
Algernon Sidney's Calvinist Republicanism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Contesting Control of Orthodoxy among the Godly
A ROUND the end of i652, William Pynchon slipped out of Massachusetts, his home since i630, and returned to England. Pynchon, charter member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, commercial entrepreneur, and founder of Springfield, was also a convicted heretic and now a fugitive from justice. His theological crimes are arcane enough to twentieth-century scholars that they have never been fully explicated or properly placed in context. Yet his offendi…
Prodigies, Puritanism, and the Perils of Natural Philosophy
IT was no ordinary cabbage root that Cotton Mather examined in Boston in the summer of i688. One of its branches looked like a cutlass, another like a rapier, and a third like an Indian club. Such freaks of nature, or prodigies, as they were called, boded no good: disruptions of the human sphere soon followed disruptions of the natural sphere. This was not the first ominous cabbage seen in New England, and Mather later grasped its meaning, as wel…
Cotton Mather, Astrologer
Prodigies, Puritanism, and the Perils of Natural Philosophy
IT was no ordinary cabbage root that Cotton Mather examined in Boston in the summer of i688. One of its branches looked like a cutlass, another like a rapier, and a third like an Indian club. Such freaks of nature, or prodigies, as they were called, boded no good: disruptions of the human sphere soon followed disruptions of the natural sphere. This was not the first ominous cabbage seen in New England, and Mather later grasped its meaning, as wel…
Seers of God
Seers of God
Journal Article Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment. By Michael P. Winship. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv, 225 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5137-8.) Get access Marilyn J. Westerkamp Marilyn J. Westerkamp University of California, Santa Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 19…
Contesting Control of Orthodoxy among the Godly
A ROUND the end of i652, William Pynchon slipped out of Massachusetts, his home since i630, and returned to England. Pynchon, charter member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, commercial entrepreneur, and founder of Springfield, was also a convicted heretic and now a fugitive from justice. His theological crimes are arcane enough to twentieth-century scholars that they have never been fully explicated or properly placed in context. Yet his offendi…
Seers of God
William Pynchon's The Jewes Synagogue
The Most Glorious Church in the World”
The dominant historiographical trend in Puritan studies, started by Patrick Collinson, stresses the conservative nature of Puritanism. It notes Puritanism's strong opposition to the separatist impulses of some of the godly and the ways in which it was successfully integrated into the Church of England until the innovations of Charles I and Archbishop Laud. Far from being revolutionary, Puritanism was able to contain the disruptive energies of the…
Were There Any Puritans in New England
Weak Christians, Backsliders, and Carnal Gospelers
The great pearl of Reformed piety, assurance of salvation, eluded Richard Rogers, Essex presbyterian activist, in theearly 1580s. Rogers "languished long" in "unsettledness in my life" "untill wofull experience" drove him to search out a more reliable method of obtaining a steady assurance. He decided that only a steady, highly reflective, and rigorous course of life could keep assurance constant. To that end, Rogers devised "a more certain manne…
Briget Cooke and the Art of Godly Female Self-Advancement
Briget Cooke was an obscure early Stuart woman from a middling background who is memorialized in a manuscript spiritual biography. The biography, besides being a rare, extended portrayal of the piety of an ordinary puritan layperson, provides an unusual glimpse into the practices of godly lay sociability and the ways in which a woman could manipulate those practices to her advantage. The manuscript not only illuminates areas of godly piety diffic…
Puritans and Their Discontents
The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson
Puritans, Politics, and Lunacy
Michael P. Winship, Puritans, Politics, and Lunacy: The Copinger-Hacket Conspiracy as the Apotheosis of Elizabethan Presbyterianism, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 2007), pp. 345-369
Freeborn (Puritan) Englishmen and Slavish Subjection
Historians are reluctant to find links between puritanism and the constitutional struggles of late Tudor and early Stuart England. “Legal/constitutional” and “religious,” it is now usually argued, are distinct categories. Scholars might allow that these categories “fused,” but only in the pressure cooker political atmosphere of the 1620s, when it was widely feared that a popish plot was undermining Protestantism and limited monarchy. “Freeborn (P…
Algernon Sidney's Calvinist Republicanism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Defining Puritanism in Restoration England
Around 1670, a group of moderate Restoration puritans published extended explanations of their movement at a particularly tense and pregnant time, when the recently erected, unstable barriers between the institutional Church of England and puritanism were under extreme pressure. Their efforts are important and revealing for their analyses of Restoration puritanism's contemporary situation and its historical roots. These publications, however, hav…
What Puritan Guarantee
What Puritan Guarantee? Michael P. Winship (bio) In The Puritan Origins of the American Self Sacvan Bercovitch claims that American Puritans believed God had made a "long promised summons" to them, "as irreversible as it was irresistible, to erect New Jerusalem in America" (97). Eventually, their "speculations about the millennial site [of the New Jerusalem] shifted from New England to, vaguely, America itself " (xviii). This divine irreversible …
Martyrs' Mirror
Adrian Chastain Weimer begins Martyrs' Mirror with a sketch of the English Protestant martyr tradition. Fueled by the Marian martyrs, this tradition assumed that Antichrist would persecute the true church until his kingdom finally fell, and the tradition passed over to New England with many consequences. It heightened local religious conflicts by raising their stakes. Perhaps, Weimer suggests, in the long term it helped bring about practical tole…
Did John Davenport's Church Require Conversion Narratives for Church Admission
Two scholars debate whether John Davenport, pastor of the New Haven church (1638–67), required that a prospective church member offer a personal account of the workings of God's saving grace in him/her to be granted church membership, a matter that, in its broader implications, has significant importance for puritan studies
The Rainborowes
Journal Article The Rainborowes: One Family's Quest to Build a New England Get access Adrian Tinniswood. (New York: Basic, 2013. xiii, 366 pp. $28.99.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Page 553, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau410 Published: 01 September 2014
For God, King, and People
For God, King, and People is intended as a corrective to the common practice of referring to colonization as “settling.” For Haskell, that usage “suggests a simple act of expanding the state’s sovereign integrity into new provincial societies and frontier economic zones” (p. 16). Haskell claims that this perspective is anachronistic since in the earliest period of English colonization, the concept of the sovereign state did not exist. Polities “w…
Hot Protestants
Hidden in Plain Sight
The 1648 Cambridge Platform, Congregationalists' first, guided New England Congregationalist church practice well into the next century. Yet the synodical deliberations that shaped the platform remain largely a closed book. Were the contents of all three preparatory platform drafts known, a baseline could be established for inferring those deliberations. But it has long been taken as a given that John Cotton's draft is missing.The now-recovered d…
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