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Perry Miller

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in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

February 25, 1905

Died

December 09, 1963

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Perry Miller was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism, and one of the founders of what came to be known as 'American Studies'. Alfred Kazin once referred to him as "the master of American intellectual history."

In his most famous book, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (1939), Miller adopted a cultural approach to illuminate the worldview of the Puritans, unlike previous historians who employed psychological and economic explanations of their beliefs and behavior.

At Harvard, he directed numerous PhD dissertations; among his most notable students were historians Bernard Bailyn and Edmund Morgan. Margaret Atwood dedicated her famous book The Handmaid's Tale ...more

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	The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century 3.95 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1939 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry 3.73 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New England Mind: From Colony to Province 4.07 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1953 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Books One Through Three 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1965 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller, John F. Wilson (Introduction) 3.63 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1949 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings by Perry Miller (Editor), Thomas H. Johnson (Editor) 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1938 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1955 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American Transcendentalists Their Prose & Poetry 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature's Nation 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1967 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orthodoxy in Massachusetts 1630-1650 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1933 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The Puritan was abject and mute before “Thus saith the Lord,” but once the Lord had spoken, he was ready to investigate the reasons behind what the Lord had said, and to demand of the faithful that they include such reason in their quest for salvation. They had not only to fulfill but to understand the will of God, though both tasks were equally difficult.”
― Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century

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“The soul of Puritan theology is the hidden God, who is not fully revealed even in His own revelation. The Bible is His declared will; behind it always lies His secret will. His secret purpose “hee hath”
― Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century

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“needed merely to look about him. “Look,” says the Puritan preacher, the doctrine is “as in nature, reason teacheth and experience evidenceth”; to deny it “is to go against the experience”
― Perry Miller, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century

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