The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather (Library of Religious Biography (LRB)) by Rick Kennedy

Author:Rick Kennedy [Kennedy, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Published: 2015-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

The Brattle Street meetinghouse with rebuilt steeple. Peter Benes notes that the construction of this meetinghouse in 1699 began the shift of New England church architecture away from regional distinctiveness toward the Protestant church forms favored in the British Empire. The linear “English roof,” compass-headed tower, and the spire reflected outwardly the England-oriented changes in liturgy and rules of membership that were promoted by the “innovators.” The New North congregation that was formed a few years later in 1714 by a faction from Cotton’s Old North imitated the Brattle style. Benes proposes that New North may have built the first steeple in New England while I still favor Brattle Street as the first, but either way, the architecture and motives for each manifested, for Cotton, a lukewarm anglicanization opposed to the hotter evangelical interest. (A detail from William Burgis’s A North East View of the Great Town of Boston, 1743. Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society)

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