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# The New England Mind: From Colony to Province

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An Essential, Timeless Classic of American History.
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2014*

This is one of the most important works of American history ever produced. If you want to understand how we got where we are, you must read this account of where we started.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Highly Recommend
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2018*

Highly Recommend

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Brilliant Scholarship & Writing
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2015*

Another wonderful book by Perry Miller.  This book is the sequel to his great The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century.  The structure of From Colony to Province is quite different from that of The Seventeenth Century.  The latter is a synchronic analysis of the New England Puritan world view and drew from the writings of Puritan divines across the whole of the 17th century.  From Colony to Province is a more conventional narrative, charting the fate of this world view as it as battered by external events and its own internal contradictions.  Miller proceeds from the mid-17th century to around 1730.  The Colony of Miller's title is the established New England Way; a theocratic society dominated by a ministerial elite dedicated to complex version of Calvinism and particularly distinguished by Covenant theology, which aimed to remove some of the sting of predestination by defining the God-Man relationship on a contractual basis.  By 1730, New England was an increasingly secular society, the ministerial elite was becoming increasingly marginal, orthodox Calvinism was eroding, and Covenant theology was being discarded in the heartlands of Boston and Connecticut.The erosion of the New England Way was driven by multiple forces.  Conceived as a somewhat utopian experiment that would kindle a further reformation in Europe, Puritan theology prepared the ministerial elite poorly to deal with the reality of an increasingly prosperous and permanent society.  A society of the elect faced both major theoretical and practical problems of bringing the children of the elect into the covenant, leading to the famous Half-Way Covenant, a compromise that ultimately satisfied no one and contributed significantly to ministerial conflict and the decay of Covenant theology.  The latter's emphasis on contractualism would give rise to secularizing political trends and after the Restoration, the Puritans had to concede toleration to avoid being overrun by state-sponsored Anglicanism and the ambiguity of claiming toleration as a minority while insisting on state church privileges in New England was a persistent source of tension with London.  Episodes like the Salem Witch trials and persecution of dissenters kindled considerable disillusionment with the orthodox ministry.The Puritan emphasis on learning was something of a Trojan horse.  By the end of the 17th century, Cartesian logic was being taught at Harvard.  Thinkers like Grotius, Locke, and Newton were widely read, even by some of the most conservative figures in the Puritan ministry.  Even Machiavelli was cited approvingly during some disputes within the ministry.  Starting from Covenant theology, a persistent theme is the gradual growth in the estimation of human capacities and retreat from strict Calvinism, often in disguised forms.  Miller focuses particularly on the careers and intellectual evolution of Increase and Cotton Mather, the father and son ministers who continually fought rear guard actions against the decline of New England orthodoxy.  Other figures, such as Solomon Stoddard, the "Pope" of the Connecticut River valley and implacable foe of the Half-Way Covenant, and portrayed very well.Like The Seventeenth Century, the quality of writing is outstanding.  Miller treats his subjects seriously and sympathetically but there many gems of ironic commentary throughout this book.

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