Contesting Control of Orthodoxy among the Godly
William Pynchon Reexamined
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4222690 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael P Winship (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 795 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2953883 |
| OpenAlex | W2069264622 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
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 offending book hit such a raw nerve among his fellow members of the Massachusetts General Court that they only had to see its title page to realize that it was derogatory, both to the Justice of God, and the Grace of Christ.1 That Pynchon has largely eluded modern scholars although thoroughly alarming his contemporaries suggests that he has something yet to tell us about the volatile seventeenthcentury theological landscape, where elaborations in divinity collided with exercises of state power. The usual scholarly maps of that landscape do not help in locating Pynchon. He was no Arminian, arguing for free will; he was certainly no Antinomian, arguing that the saints had been freed from the sanctions of the moral law; nor, contrary to the most commonly accepted interpretation, did he in a Socinian manner deny the Trinity, believe that Christ died as a moral example, and favor rationalism and tolerance.2 Pynchon, like any conven
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2019 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |