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Reviving Puritan History: Evangelicalism, Antiquarianism, and Mather’s Magnalia in Antebellum America

Reviving Puritan History: Evangelicalism, Antiquarianism, and Mather’s Magnalia in Antebellum... LInDsAY DICUIRCI Ohio State University Reviving Puritan History Evangelicalism, Antiquarianism, and Mather’s Magnalia in Antebellum America By the time Cotton Mather died in 1728, his two-volume church history, the Magnalia Christi Americana, had all but vanished in England and America. As one of New England’s most prominent and controversial Puritan figures, Mather represented a generation of colonists and a theo- logical stance that, like his book, was quickly receding into the past.1 The Magnalia is an exhaustive historical account of colonial New England that includes descriptions of the founding of specific Puritan congregations and seminaries, accounts of spiritual trials and martyrdom, and celebra- tions of God’s providential care over the Puritans. But despite the promi- nence of its author, the usefulness of its records, and the optimism of its theological message, a complete American edition of the Magnalia did not exist until almost 120 years aer i ft ts first printing in London in 1702.2 In 1820, the Magnalia was saved from obscurity by a Connecticut min- ister and antiquarian, Thomas Robbins. Robbins’s decision to publish the first American edition of the Magnalia was driven by his involvement in two significant national movements between 1820 and 1855: the Second Great http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Reviving Puritan History: Evangelicalism, Antiquarianism, and Mather’s Magnalia in Antebellum America

DiCuirci, Lindsay.
Early American Literature , Volume 45 (3) – Nov 6, 2010
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LInDsAY DICUIRCI Ohio State University Reviving Puritan History Evangelicalism, Antiquarianism, and Mather’s Magnalia in Antebellum America By the time Cotton Mather died in 1728, his two-volume church history, the Magnalia Christi Americana, had all but vanished in England and America. As one of New England’s most prominent and controversial Puritan figures, Mather represented a generation of colonists and a theo- logical stance that, like his book, was quickly receding into the past.1 The Magnalia is an exhaustive historical account of colonial New England that includes descriptions of the founding of specific Puritan congregations and seminaries, accounts of spiritual trials and martyrdom, and celebra- tions of God’s providential care over the Puritans. But despite the promi- nence of its author, the usefulness of its records, and the optimism of its theological message, a complete American edition of the Magnalia did not exist until almost 120 years aer i ft ts first printing in London in 1702.2 In 1820, the Magnalia was saved from obscurity by a Connecticut min- ister and antiquarian, Thomas Robbins. Robbins’s decision to publish the first American edition of the Magnalia was driven by his involvement in two significant national movements between 1820 and 1855: the Second Great

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