Tag Archives: Puritanism

mercy mercy them: the H word

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dave

An account of religious heresy. Hardly. No one can match Gottfried Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics. The Lutheran priest published the two volume tome in 1699 to almost universal disdain from within the Church and their … Continue reading →

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scarlet fever of moral torment

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Dave

Yet for all its gloom and whisper of abominations, The Scarlet letter is among those great tales in which the spectrum of meanings runs unbroken from the clearest daylight into vibrations beyond either visions or rational interpretation. Those who wish … Continue reading →