Perry Miller's Rehabilitation of the Puritans: A @Critique

In the era between the Civil War and the Depression the mythical character called the “American Mind” was troubled. All was well during the day when prosperity and success faced him at every turn, but at night he would sometimes dream of his childhood and awake feeling strangely uneasy. His analyst...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marsden, George M. 1939- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Cambridge University Press [1970]
In: Church history
Year: 1970, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-105
Online Access: Volltext (doi)

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a22000002 4500
001 1647125359
003 DE-627
005 20160620105236.0
007 tu
008 160425s1970 xx ||||| 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.2307/3163216  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1647125359 
035 |a (DE-576)468982140 
035 |a (DE-599)BSZ468982140 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |e VerfasserIn  |0 (DE-588)119474867  |0 (DE-627)080289681  |0 (DE-576)164773975  |4 aut  |a Marsden, George M.  |d 1939- 
109 |a Marsden, George M. 1939-  |a Marsden, George 1939-  |a Marsden, George Mish 1939- 
245 1 0 |a Perry Miller's Rehabilitation of the Puritans  |b A @Critique 
264 1 |c [1970] 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Band  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a In the era between the Civil War and the Depression the mythical character called the “American Mind” was troubled. All was well during the day when prosperity and success faced him at every turn, but at night he would sometimes dream of his childhood and awake feeling strangely uneasy. His analyst explained that this tension was the product of latent guilt feelings and suggested for therapy that he read himself to sleep with recent studies of the oppressive effects of Puritanism on young national minds. Turning to these works, the “American Mind” found that the analyst had been quite right. The source of the guilt feelings, he discovered, was an irrational phase of his development called the Reformation. This phase had been dominant when he lived in New England (he since had moved to the Midwest), but he was assured that the latest scholarship had discovered its influence to be harsh, grotesque, superstitious, narrowminded, illiberal, and worst of all intolerant.1 The problem was, one expert informed him, that this era “was unleavened by the spirit of the Renaissance.” Another observed that the Reformation attitudes were a “subtle poison” flowing thorugh the veins of the entire social organism. Still another implied that the “splendor of the Renaissance” had been delayed three hundred years by Reformation intolerance. Convinced that the open-mindedness of the Renaissance was healthier than the irrational bigotry of the Reformation, the “American Mind” of this era began to feel easier about his past. He resolved to tolerate everyone, except of course his more conservative enemies whom he damned as “Puritan.” 
601 |a Rehabilitation 
601 |a Puritaner 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Church history  |d Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1932  |g 39(1970), 1, Seite 91-105  |w (DE-627)129068306  |w (DE-600)1533-7  |w (DE-576)014399822  |x 0009-6407  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:39  |g year:1970  |g number:1  |g pages:91-105 
856 |u https://doi.org/10.2307/3163216  |x doi  |3 Volltext 
936 u w |d 39  |j 1970  |e 1  |h 91-105 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1  |b 1 
ITA |a 1  |t 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 3321723670 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1647125359 
LOK |0 005 20160425121639 
LOK |0 008 160425||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzo 
ORI |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw