The Puritan Family: Religion & Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England
By (author): "Edmund S. Morgan"
Publish Date:
August 7th 1942
ISBN0313227039
ISBN139780313227035
AsinThe Puritan Family: Religion & Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England
Original titleThe Puritan Family
The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a visible kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.