Abram C Van Engen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abram C Van Engen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abram C |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Engen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ENGEN A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Passion of Anne Hutchinson
In Marilyn J. Westerkamp's lively new biography of Anne Hutchinson, readers find a charismatic leader whose voice rises with “conviction and vitality, wit and intelligence” (p. 3). Asking how Hutchinson became such a significant leader, Westerkamp points to the power of mystical spirituality within Puritanism. The leveling force of that strain—one that treats all believers as equal before God and as brides of Christ—appealed especially to women, …
Puritanism in Transatlantic Perspective
David D. Hall’s book comprises a transatlantic history of the Puritan movement from its sixteenth-century emergence to its heyday under Oliver Cromwell and its subsequent political demise after 1660. Hall provides insights into the movement’s trajectory, including the various forms of Puritan belief and practice in England and Scotland and their transatlantic migration. In Hall’s sweeping view, Puritanism was a driving force for cultural change i…
Patricia Pender. Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty / Gillian Wright. Producing Women’s Poetry, 1600–1730
Is Anne Bradstreet English or American? Most scholars, I suspect, would call her both, or would claim that the distinction does not really make sense for an English person living in North America d
Origins and Last Farewells
The Puritans never published John Winthrop's “city on a hill” sermon, A Model of Christian Charity, which vanished in the seventeenth century. When it reappeared 200 years later, scholars relied on a dubious cover-note to proclaim its foundational significance. Demonstrating how the Geneva Bible gave shape to Winthrop's sermon–and how the manuscript's whims helped make sense of its meaning–this essay reveals the role of textual form in the constr…
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Origins and Last Farewells
The Puritans never published John Winthrop's “city on a hill” sermon, A Model of Christian Charity, which vanished in the seventeenth century. When it reappeared 200 years later, scholars relied on a dubious cover-note to proclaim its foundational significance. Demonstrating how the Geneva Bible gave shape to Winthrop's sermon–and how the manuscript's whims helped make sense of its meaning–this essay reveals the role of textual form in the constr…
Patricia Pender. Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty / Gillian Wright. Producing Women’s Poetry, 1600–1730
Is Anne Bradstreet English or American? Most scholars, I suspect, would call her both, or would claim that the distinction does not really make sense for an English person living in North America d
Puritanism in Transatlantic Perspective
David D. Hall’s book comprises a transatlantic history of the Puritan movement from its sixteenth-century emergence to its heyday under Oliver Cromwell and its subsequent political demise after 1660. Hall provides insights into the movement’s trajectory, including the various forms of Puritan belief and practice in England and Scotland and their transatlantic migration. In Hall’s sweeping view, Puritanism was a driving force for cultural change i…
The Passion of Anne Hutchinson
In Marilyn J. Westerkamp's lively new biography of Anne Hutchinson, readers find a charismatic leader whose voice rises with “conviction and vitality, wit and intelligence” (p. 3). Asking how Hutchinson became such a significant leader, Westerkamp points to the power of mystical spirituality within Puritanism. The leveling force of that strain—one that treats all believers as equal before God and as brides of Christ—appealed especially to women, …
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