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God's plotThomas Shepard
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God's plot

244 pagesFirst published 19721 edition
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First issued some twenty years ago, Michael McGiffert's edition of God's Plot brought into print the autobiography and journal of Thomas Shepard, Puritan writer, minister at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a leading architect of New England's church way. Since then, a generation of scholars has drawn on these documents to enhance our understanding of American Puritan spirituality and religious psychology. In this revised edition, Shepard's autobiography is reprinted in full along with a portion of his journal. Supplementing these texts are confessions of religious experience given by applicants…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionUniversity of Massachusetts Press19942379780870239267
PuritansChurch historyHistoryClergyBiographyAutobiografiePuriteinenCambridge (mass.)