Book Review: Michael Winship's 'Hot Protestants' is a gracefully written account of trans-Atlantic Puritanism
For many people, “Puritanism” signifies little more than a joyless religious mania—“the haunting fear,” as H.L. Mencken famously defined it, “that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
” A not-insignificant number of religious believers around the world today still revere the Puritans for the dense and often gravely eloquent works of theological reflection produced by its 16th- and 17th-century divines. At its core, though, Puritanism was a political impulse. As Michael Winship writes in the final sentence of “Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America,” the Puritans aspired “to a Christian commonwealth...
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