PROSTITUTING THE PULPIT? THE NEGOTIATED AUTHORITY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND CLERGY
OF DISSERTATION
Tenacious of Their Liberties: The Congregationalists in Colonial Massachusetts
Introduction 1. The Implementation of the Congregational Way 2. "A Mixed Form": Clerical Authority and Lay Liberty 3. Lay "Rebellion" and Clerical Reaction: Antinomianism and Its Aftermath 4. The Presbyterian Challenge 5. Congregationalism in Crisis: The Halfway Covenant 6. An Uneasy Balance 7. Declension and Reform 8. Clerical Conflict and the Decline of Sola Scriptura 9. Perpetuation and Disintegration 10. The Great Awakening and the Privatization of Piety Afterword Notes Index
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America: Acknowledgments
Introduction: re-examining the roots of Anglo-American political thought Part I. The Divine Right Challenge to Natural Liberty: 1. The attack on the Catholic natural law 2. Calvinism and parliamentary resistance theory 3. The problem of Grotius and Hobbes Part II. The Whig Politics of Liberty in England: 4. James Tyrrell: the voice of moderate Whiggism 5. The Pufendorfian movement: moderate Whig sovereignty theory 6. Algernon Sidney and the old Republicanisms 7. A new Republican England 8. Natural rights in Locke's two treatises 9. Lockean liberal constitutionalism 10. The glorious revolution and the catonic response Part III. The Whig Legacy in America: 12. British constitutionalism and the challenge of empire 13. Thomas Jefferson and the radical theory of empire 14. Tom Paine and popular sovereignty 15. Revolutionary constitutionalism: laboratories of radical Whiggism Conclusions Notes Bibliography.