The Pompe and Pride of Man: Pride and Humility in Early New England

A study of migration, theology, and daily life, this book focuses on how Puritans crafted and perpetuated a dichotomy of pride and humility as a nexus through which to govern and maintain control within New England. Front Cover Half Title Series Informations Title Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 “The Lord’s Wonderfull Terror and Mercy”: Pride and Passage on the Atlantic 1 Migration 2 Suffering on the Sea 3 Sailors 4 Storms and Tempests 5 Deliverance 6 Incorporation and Identity 2 “Pride and Spirituall Whoardoms”: Pride and Humility in Early New England 1 Proud Peoples 2 Collective Humility 3 Understanding Pride 4 Seeking and Performing Humility 5 A Prouder Sex 6 Self-love and Sexual Sins 3 “The New Creature”: Performing and Purging Pride 1 Public Confession and Humiliation 2 Paradox of Pride 3 Anxieties and Lamentations 4 “To Humble Ourselves Together”: Public Humility in Early New England 1 Meanings of Fasts and Humiliations 2 Fast Day Sermons 3 Performing Humiliation 4 Days of Thanksgiving 5 “Full of Proud Expressions”: Civil and Church Censure in Early New England 1 Public Shaming in New England 2 New England Legal Codes 3 Pride and Punishment 4 Drunkenness and Self-Shame 5 Proud Speech 6 Humility and Servitude 7 Confession and Repentance 6 “Pride and Arraigning of Spirit”: Conflict and Strife in Early New England 1 Plymouth and Reverend Lyford 2 Plymouth and Thomas Morton 3 Massachusetts Bay and the Antinomian Controversy (John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson) 7 “Great Pride and Insolence”: Vehement Violence in the Pequot War 1 Proud Pequots 2 Spiritual Warfare against Pride 3 John Stone and John Oldham, the Importance of Repentance 4 Mocking Humility 5 Rejecting God, Refusing Humility 6 Fort Mystic 7 Understanding the Pequot War Conclusion Bibliography Index Back Cover