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The Heart Prepared Grace and Conversion in Puritan Spiritual Life

Author: Norman Pettit
ISBN #: 0300008260
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publisher Location: New Haven
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: very good
Edition: First edition
Pub Date: 1966
Lightest shelf wear to the book and jacket which is rubbed, page edges spotted. First printing, no others noted. Inscribed by the author. "Pettit makes his way carefully from Zwingli and Calvin to Ames and Perkins to Hooker and Cottonan analyzing how each and their contemporaries attempted to cope with the problem and the dilemma" (the conflict between antinomianism and arminianism) J. M. Bumstead, Journal of American History, 1967. Norman Pettit has an A.B. from Harvard College, a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a PhD from Yale University. He has taught at several world renowned universities such as M.I.T., Boston University, University of Oxford, University of Bonn, University of Stuttgart, University of Berlin and Universities of Düsseldorf. Among his significant achievements, Dr. Pettit was also the Editor of Harvard University Press and was awarded the Egleston History Prize by Yale University. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!