Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Biography. Increase Mather (1639-1723) was the sixth president of Harvard College, serving as acting president from 1685 to 1686, rector from 1686 to 1692, and president from 1692 to 1701. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Mather received his A.B. from Harvard in 1656, and an A.M. degree from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1658.
INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723). Even more than his illustrious son Cotton, Increase Mather, is representative of American Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England. As a leader of Boston’s ministry, he became the defender of Puritan orthodoxy during its decline; as president of Harvard, he guided the college through its most difficult period; as a political figure, he secured a new charter ...
"Increase Mather" published on by null. (1639–1723)American Puritan clergyman. The son of Richard Mather (1596–1669), who had helped define Congregational orthodoxy in 1648, he became a Boston minister in 1664 and married the daughter of John Cotton.
Increase Mather ( 21 juin 1639, Dorchester, Massachusetts, États-Unis - 23 août 1723, Boston, Massachusetts, États-Unis ), était un ministre du culte puritain, auteur et pédagogue américain, dernier fils de Richard Mather, puritain anglais qui avait fui les persécutions anglaises en émigrant en 1635, et père du révérend Cotton Mather .
27. Mai 2019 · The autobiography of Increase Mather by Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. Publication date 1962 Topics Mather, Increase, 1639-1723, Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Biography, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Publisher W ...
Increase Mather’s primary target was “Mixt or Promiscuous Dancing” of men and women together. Published in 1684, Increase Mather’s An Arrow Against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing Drawn out of the Quiver of the Scriptures is an example of the significant opposition to dancing in Puritan New England. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in ...
