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Subject: Midwest Book Review: Theocracy in Massachusetts
Date: 17 Aug 1995 10:34:50 -0400

Theocracy in Massachusetts
Avihu Zakai
The Edwin Mellen Press
PO Box 450, Lewiston, NY 14092-0450
0-7734-9970-9   $109.95

Theocracy in Massachusetts: Reformation and Separation in Early Puritan
New England explores the eschatological and millennial dimension in the
Puritan mind, to show that out of a unique apocalyptic interpretation of
history, Puritans were not only able to justify their migration to America
with sacred, providential history, but also able to define the meaning of
their holy experiment in the course of salvation history. As the Puritan
emigrants themselves perceived it, their errand into the wilderness was an
earthly stand against the power of Satan and Antichrist.