Events from this week in Christian history include the birth of Henry Venn, the exiling of Athanasius of Alexandria and the death of Cotton Mather.

Cotton Mather’s response to an outbreak in his community was inspired by Onesimus’s life story. Perhaps no American community is as polemic as the Puritans. One of its biggest personalities was Cotton ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The son of influential Puritan minister Increase Mather, Cotton Mather belonged to the Puritan dynasty that shaped the ...

Rick Kennedy rewrites the reputation of a reviled Puritan leader. If we remember the Puritan pastor Cotton Mather at all these days, we’re likely to think of him as a meddling, moralistic hypocrite.

If one were to cite the name of the famous Puritan divine Cotton Mather, theologians and clergy would generally roll their eyes in horror. The Rev. Cotton Mather was, after all, the famous preacher ...

NMAI copy 39088017717760 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. From Mather's adolescence to the death of John Cotton -- From the founding of the Brattle Street Church to the end of the ...

If one were to cite the name of the famous Puritan divine Cotton Mather, theologians and clergy would generally roll their eyes in horror. The Rev. Cotton Mather was, after all, the famous preacher ...