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To walk the Earth again : the politics of resurrection in early America /

The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-Ameri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trigg, Christopher Peter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Resurrection > Biblical teaching.
Protestantism > United States > History > 17th century.
Résurrection > Enseignement biblique.
Protestantisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Protestantism
Resurrection > Biblical teaching
United States
Religion & beliefs.
1600-1699
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series
  • To Walk the Earth Again
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Resurrection in the New World
  • 1. Resurrection, Selfhood, and the Church
  • Eschatological Innovation in the Seventeenth Century
  • Robert Baillie's Attack on Resurrection Theology in New England
  • Conversion as the "Cominge of Christ": Anne Hutchinson's Realized Eschatology
  • "Men Think It Easie to Believe a Resurrection": John Cotton's and Thomas Shepard's Responses to Hutchinson
  • No Sacred History: Samuel Gorton's Realized Eschatology
  • The Inner Light Is the Risen Christ: Quaker Resurrection Theology
  • 2. Cotton Mather and the First Resurrection
  • Collective Life after Death
  • The Greatest Work of Christ in America: Resurrection in the Magnalia Christi Americana
  • Mather and the Science of Resurrection
  • The Imperial Politics of Mather's Millennialism
  • The Bones of Joseph: Mather, Benjamin Colman, and the First Resurrection
  • 3. Resurrection's Racial Politics
  • Protestant Evangelism and the Development of Racial Difference
  • "Can the Ethiopian Change His Skin?": Samuel Sewall, Resurrection, and Race
  • "The Obedient Nations": Non-​Europeans in Cotton Mather's Millennium
  • John Beach and Immaterial Resurrection
  • Race, Resurrection, and Revivalism
  • "The Heaven of Comparative Freedom": Radical Black Eschatologies
  • 4. Thomas Prince and the Resurrection of the World
  • Prince's Globalism
  • "Perpetual Spring throughout the Earth": Prince and the Millennial Transformation of the Planet
  • Revivalism and Immortalism
  • The Resurrection of Other Worlds: Prince and William Torrey's Brief Discourse
  • 5. Secular Resurrections
  • Reworking and Rejecting Protestant Eschatology
  • Resurrection as Metaphor
  • Natural and Social Resurrection
  • Debating Literal Belief in Resurrection
  • Spiritualism, Sentimentalism, and Materialism
  • Coda: Resurrection Hereafter
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index