Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds
John Davenport may have built a "New Jerusalem," but it is not the Jerusalem previous historians have imagined. Davenport's biblical deliberateness extended to the very plan of the city of New Haven, which was based on the layout of the Temple of Solomon, possibly drawing on contempor...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 594-596 |
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| Summary: | John Davenport may have built a "New Jerusalem," but it is not the Jerusalem previous historians have imagined. Davenport's biblical deliberateness extended to the very plan of the city of New Haven, which was based on the layout of the Temple of Solomon, possibly drawing on contemporary Jewish and Catholic models. Yet Davenport's New Jerusalem was not, as the title might suggest, the center of a millennial kingdom. Rather it was an ongoing quest for "heavenly reform" expressed through gathered congregations that "would manifest the spirit of the true church" (p. 2). And Bremer describes New Haven's visionary preacher, not as a myopic and parochial founder, but as an ecumenically-minded, flexible leader who above all embraced a "large-tent approach to reform" (p. 154). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu044 |