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Early New England: A Covenanted Society (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR)),New
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The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenthcentury New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenthcentury covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on churchstate relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenthcentury New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more 'English' and much less 'American' than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.
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