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The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American … and the University of North Carolina Press)

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In an examination of transatlantic Puritanism from 1570 to 1638, Theodore Dwight Bozeman analyzes the quest for purity through sanctification. The word “Puritan,” he says, as it should be depicts a big and steadily obsessive trait of the English late Reformation: a hunger for discipline. The Precisianist Strain clarifies what Puritanism in its disciplinary mode meant for an early up to date society struggling with problems of change, order, and identity.

Focusing on ascetic teachings and rites, which in their severity fostered the “precisianist strain” prevalent in Puritan thought and devotional practice, Bozeman traces the reactions of believers put under ever more meticulous demands. Sectarian theologies of ease and consolation soon formed in reaction to those demands, Bozeman argues, in the end giving rise to a “first wave” of antinomian riot, including the American conflicts of 1636-1638. Antinomianism, in keeping with the premise of salvation without strictness and duty, used to be not such a lot a radicalization of Puritan content as a backlash against the whole project of disciplinary religion. Its reconceptualization of self and responsibility would impact Anglo-American theology for decades to come.

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