Thomas, Hooker. Writings in England and Holland, 1626–1633

Brumm, Ursula; Williams, Gareth T.; Pettit, Norman; Herget, Winfried; Bush, Sargent

doi:10.1007/978-3-476-99996-2_14

Amerikastudien / American Studies 1977

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-99996-2_14

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Thomas, Hooker. Writings in England and Holland, 1626–1633

Ursula Brumm¹,

Gareth T. Williams²,

Norman Pettit³

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Thomas Hooker and His May 1638 Sermon

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In May 1638 the Puritan pastor Thomas Hooker preached a sermon that has been accounted as among the most important in colonial New England. According to existing interpretations, Hooker advocated popular sovereignty and popular control of civil government. Furthermore, in line with this interpretation, most scholars have accorded Hooker an important, if not also central, role in Connecticut’s adoption in 1639 of the Fundamental Orders—the colony’s articulation of its design for self-government. Contrary to the accepted interpretation, this essay demonstrates that Hooker’s sermon, based on Deuteronomy 1:13, was actually instruction to his congregation and audience about their religious duties as persons living under a government that God had ordained for them. This essay concludes that this change in perspective about the sermon’s meaning—from “political” to “religious”—has important implications for existing stories of New England political history.

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Hearing, Writing, Reading God’s Word

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Joshua Moody's Funeral Sermon for Thomas Daniel as Political Jeremiad

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1984

Canadian Review of American Studies

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To show how thoroughly conventional seventeenth-century American jeremiads had grown, Perry Miller felt it necessary only to observe that they had become "as fixed and stereotyped as the funeral sermon or latin oration."1 While Miller is right that without exception funeral sermons, like the deceased saints for whom they were written, appear other-worldly in their theology and biography, the ministers who delivered them did not separate—as modern readers are apt to—the changeless lessons of theology from immediate practical concerns. Especially as challenges to the New England Way mounted during the final decades of the seventeenth century, ministers carefully constructed funeral sermons to apply traditional metaphors of Protestant sainthood to the specific political or social problems facing New Englanders. A brief survey of the development of the political jeremiad in colonial funeral sermons will provide the background for an examination of Joshua Moody's funeral sermon for Thomas Daniel, The Believers Happy Change By Dying, a sermon which exemplifies especially well the rhetorical strategies of these political jeremiads.

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