{"product_id":"sympathetic-puritans-calvinist-fellow-feeling-in-early-new-england-9780199379637","title":"Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Abram Van Engen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christianity - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, \u003cem\u003e Sympathetic Puritans\u003c\/em\u003e argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears; the standard history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment, not Puritan New England. Abram C. Van Engen has unearthed pervasive evidence of sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts, poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives. He demonstrates how two types of sympathy -- the active \u003cem\u003ecommand\u003c\/em\u003e to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that could indicate salvation (a discovery) -- permeated Puritan society and came to define the very boundaries of English culture, affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native Americans, \u003cbr\u003eand the development of American literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVan Engen re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives, transatlantic relations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative -- and Puritan culture more generally -- through the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book reveals the religious history of a concept that has previously been associated with more secular roots.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890551308439,"sku":"9780199379637","price":10321.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199379637.webp?v=1781180472","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sympathetic-puritans-calvinist-fellow-feeling-in-early-new-england-9780199379637","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}