RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)There is a retrospective flavour to the book, and something of an elegiac flavour too, particularly in its closing chapters, as it traces the long slow decay of the Puritan tradition ... Hall’s humane and sympathetic account of Puritan spirituality helps to explain the paradox of its appeal ... This book is the latest in a long line of studies that have delicately teased out the subtleties of New England Puritan theology, and...it deserves to rank among the best of them. As a study of the intellectual and cultural transmission of Puritanism, it could hardly be improved on. But the price of this concentrated attention to religion and theology is a certain blurring of focus when it comes to the wider context of war and politics on the colonial frontier.
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