Beyond the “Democrat”/“Conservative” Dichotomy
John Wise Reconsidered
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16304501 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John S Oakes (John S. Oakes is an independent scholar, based near Toronto, who specializes in early American religious history. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School (2013–14) and a Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School (2012). He is currently completing a book-length manuscript entitled “Conservative Revolutionaries”: Tradition and Transformation in the Religious and Political Thought of Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncy, which will be published by Pickwick Publications in 2016., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 483-508 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00475 |
| OpenAlex | W2108299415 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Massachusetts minister John Wise (1652–1725) was one of the foremost colonial apologists for the early “New England Way” in Congregationalist churches. But anachronistic labeling has distorted historical interpretations of his two main works. This article moves beyond the “‘democrat’/’‘conservative’ dichotomy” that has marred previous scholarship to offer a new, freshly contextualized reading
Anachronism · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Scholarship · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |