A Reforming People

Hall, David D.

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“…64 Whereas Massachusetts allowed two deputies per town, each Connecticut town had four committeemen. 65 In practice, this meant committeemen outnumbered magistrates. Massachusetts faced a similar imbalance, a problem the magistrates kept in check by curtailing the deputies' powers.…”

Section: Contesting the Sinews Of Societymentioning

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Repairing the Breach: Puritan Expansion, Commonwealth Formation, and the Origins of the United Colonies of New England, 1630–1643

Dugre

2018

The New England Quarterly

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Section: Contesting the Sinews Of Societymentioning

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Repairing the Breach: Puritan Expansion, Commonwealth Formation, and the Origins of the United Colonies of New England, 1630–1643

Dugre

2018

The New England Quarterly

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“…79 "Confession, not punishment, was the crucial moment in this drama"; penitence opened "the way to reconciliation and restoration." 80 In her church trial at the end of the controversy in 1638, Hutchinson had initially seemed willing to go along with this ritual reincorporation. She momentarily accepted the error of some of her positions but then claimed that all her supposed errors were due merely to infelicities of expression, not their content, "and this shee affirmed with such confidence as bred great astonishment in many, who had known the contrary, and diverse alledged her own sayings and reasonings, .…”

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The Problem of Toleration in Early Massachusetts

Rome¹

2017

Journal of Religious History

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Early Massachusetts is generally seen by scholars as “intolerant.” But this is to employ a misleading dichotomy between tolerant and intolerant societies which obscures the colonists’ understanding of themselves. They believed that their society instead successfully reconciled individual liberty and communal harmony through rational debate, social consensus, and the pursuit of truth. Their response to the Antinomian controversy is highly revealing in this context, demonstrating that they desired to persuade the aberrant back into the fold and that they reserved political intervention for when dissension had serious public implications. It was only those deemed irreconcilable who were ultimately excluded from the community. To approach the topic in this way is to resist the marginalisation of New England from the history of political and social thought by re‐evaluating the ends and actions of the colonists and by providing an important alternative perspective on the nature of toleration and its limits.

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The puritanical moral contract: Purity, cooperation, and the architecture of the moral mind

Fitouchi,

André,

Baumard

2023

Behav Brain Sci

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Commentators raise fundamental questions about the notion of purity (sect. R1), the architecture of moral cognition (sect. R2), the functional relationship between morality and cooperation (sect. R3), the role of folk-theories of self-control in moral judgment (sect. R4), and the cultural variation of morality (sect. R5). In our response, we address all these issues by clarifying our theory of puritanism, responding to counter-arguments, and incorporating welcome corrections and extensions.

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A Reforming People

Cited by 10 publications

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Repairing the Breach: Puritan Expansion, Commonwealth Formation, and the Origins of the United Colonies of New England, 1630–1643

Repairing the Breach: Puritan Expansion, Commonwealth Formation, and the Origins of the United Colonies of New England, 1630–1643

The Problem of Toleration in Early Massachusetts

The puritanical moral contract: Purity, cooperation, and the architecture of the moral mind

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