The Development of Transatlantic Calvinist Diaspora and Its Relation to the New England Puritan Culture

该项目的初步研究是在哈佛大学图书馆和档案馆进行的。对英国和欧洲的更多研究旅行使其有可能跟踪跨大西洋思想的传播以及国际改革派社区的历史分散。虽然改革派有某些神学信仰和实践的共同之处，但当地的发展对每个“散居者”有所不同，并根据不同的生活经历塑造其特征。我通过将殖民地与荷兰的商业城市以及欧洲的共和制城邦进行比较，而不仅仅是与君主制英国的国家和城市进行比较，拓宽了17世纪东北清教主义的研究基础。我还研究了东北清教主义和大陆宗教信仰的相互作用，这是自18世纪以来主导美国的福音派新教形成的主要因素。大卫·D·霍尔博士在最后一年被邀请到索菲亚大学。

The primary research for this project was conducted in Harvard libraries and archives. Additional research trips to the UK and Europe made it possible to track the transatlantic dissemination of ideas as well as historical dispersion of the international Reformed communities. Although the Reformed had certain theological convictions and practices in common, the local developments varied for each "diaspora" and shaped its features according to distinctive lived experiences. I broadened the basis of the study of 17th-century NE Puritanism by comparing the colonies with the Dutch commerce-oriented cities as well as republican city-states in Europe, rather than merely with the States and the cities of monarchical Britain. I also studied the interaction of NE Puritanism and Continental Pietism, which was a major factor in the formation of the Evangelical Protestantism that has predominated in the US from the 18th century on. Dr. David D. Hall was invited to Sophia U on the final year.