Cotton Mather Brings Isaac Watts's Hymns to America; or, How to Perform a Hymn without Singing It

Phillips, Christopher N.

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“…To this end, Mather provided in his writings hymns that could be used in family worship, typically indicating some for the morning and some for the evening. He was, in fact, responsible for bringing many of Isaac Watts's hymns into family worship in New England, tying these works to Scripture passages and including them in sermons and pamphlets encouraging family religious practices (Phillips, 2012). "The Angels of God themselves," he suggested, "Love to be about the Houses, where the Families are often Singing the Praises of God" (Mather, 1703b, p. 33).…”

Section: Formal Family Sacrifices: Family Spiritual Practicesmentioning

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Igniting the “Family Sacrifice”: Cotton Mather and Familial Christian Education in Puritan New England

Setran

2014

Christian Education Journal: Research on Educational Ministry

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In his preaching and writing, Puritan pastor Cotton Mather compared family religion to a “family sacrifice.” This image anchored a vision of home nurture that highlighted both the offering of family spiritual practices and the offering of family members themselves as “living sacrifices” in their everyday lives. Mather's vision of sacrificial family faith formation resulted in an approach that was holy and grace-filled, personal and corporate, formal and informal, and strong and submissive.

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Section: Formal Family Sacrifices: Family Spiritual Practicesmentioning

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Igniting the “Family Sacrifice”: Cotton Mather and Familial Christian Education in Puritan New England

Setran

2014

Christian Education Journal: Research on Educational Ministry

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Early American Evangelical Print Culture

Roberts¹

2020

A Companion to American Literature

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“I Took Up the Hymn-Book”: Rhetoric of Hymnody in Jarena Lee’sCall to Preach

Minifee

2015

Advances in the History of Rhetoric

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Through examining Jarena Lee’s employment of hymns in her spiritual autobiography, The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel, I demonstrate how hymnody, a largely understudied literary genre in rhetorical studies, proved a critical instrument in authenticating her spiritual conversion and validating her qualifications to serve as a ministerial leader. Using Chaim Perelman’s concept of “presence” and recent research in neuroscience (on the brain and music) I show how Lee’s excerpts of the nineteenth century’s most popular hymns create an aural ambience reminiscent of a worship service that engages her Christian readers’ pathos and sense of piety in order to disengage their prejudice against her race and gender.

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Cotton Mather Brings Isaac Watts's Hymns to America; or, How to Perform a Hymn without Singing It

Cited by 6 publications

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Igniting the “Family Sacrifice”: Cotton Mather and Familial Christian Education in Puritan New England

Igniting the “Family Sacrifice”: Cotton Mather and Familial Christian Education in Puritan New England

Early American Evangelical Print Culture

“I Took Up the Hymn-Book”: Rhetoric of Hymnody in Jarena Lee’sCall to Preach

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