The Devil's Mousetrap: Redemption and Colonial American Literature

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Oxford University Press, 1997 - 144 sidor
The Devil's Mousetrap approaches the thought of three colonial New England divines--Increase Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and Edward Taylor--from the perspective of literary theory. Author Linda Munk focuses on the background of these men's ideas and on the sources from which they drew, both directly and indirectly, in framing their theology. She notes that the language used in the pulpit by Mather, Edwards, and Taylor is full of allusions to the Bible and Apocrypha, to Puritan treatises, and to post-biblical exegesis, Jewish and Christian. Munk proceeds to unpack many allusions that have, for the most part, proven to be unclear to contemporary readers, in order to provide essential insights into the construction of Puritan theology.

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The Devils Mousetrap
3
Jonathan Edwards and the Angel of the Lord A History of the Work of Redemption
24
The Age of Messiah Increase Mather and the Conversion of the Jews
47
Edward Taylor and the Feast of Tabernacles
70
Afterword
95
Notes
105
Index
139
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Linda Munk is at University of Toronto.

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