Cotton Mather and the Meaning of Suffering in the Magnalia.
Magnalia Christi Americana Or The Ecclesiastical History Of New England V1: From Its First Planting In The Year 1620 Unto The Year Of Our Lord 1698 by Cotton Mather 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1971 — 11 editions.
For the rock band, see Cotton Mather (band). Cotton Mather Cotton Mather, circa 1700 Born February 12, 1663(1663 02 12). Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the.
Probably Mather's greatest work was his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). Primarily a history of New England, it is composed from many of Mather's other writings. The seven sections tell of the settlement of New England, the lives of its governors and ministers, and the story of Harvard College and of the Congregational Church.
Puritan leader and prolific author Cotton Mather’s most widely-read work, the Magnalia Christi Americana presents a history of religious development in New England from 1620 to 1698. It provides biographies of eminent people, an account of the founding of Harvard University, accounts of New England churches, and much more. This volume contains the second portion of the work’s seven books.
His most enduring and, at once, most famous legacy is his Puritan epic Magnalia Christi Americana (London, 1702), an ecclesiastical history of New England in the contemporary tradition of providence literature. In seven books of uneven length, Mather commemorates on an epic scale virtually every aspect of New England's formative period (1620-1698). From a literary point of view, Mather's.
The most well-known and studied of all of Mather’s essays is “Bonifacius. AN ESSAY Upon the GOOD, that is to be Devised and Designed, BY THOSE Who Desire to Answer the Great END of Life, and to DO GOOD While they Live.” Within that rather ungainly length is a phrase that recurs often enough in other essays to effectively encapsulate the overarching them his entire canon. In the mind of.
Among his four hundred or more published works, many of which are sermons, tracts and letters, the most notable is his Magnalia Christi Americana: or the Ecclesiastical History of New England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620 unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. Begun in 1693 and finished in 1697, this work was published in London, in 1702 in one volume, and was republished in Hartford in.