Puritanism has a reputation for being emotionally dry, but seventeenth-century Puritans did not only have rich and complex emotional lives, they also found meaning in and drew spiritual strength from emotion. From theology to lived experience and from joy to affliction, this volume surveys the wealth and depth of the Puritans' passions.

Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, UK, and author of books including The Age of Reformation (2009) and Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013).
Tom Schwanda is Associate Professor of Christian Formation and Ministry at Wheaton College, USA. His books include Soul Recreation: The Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Puritanism (2012) and The Emergence of Evangelical Spirituality In the Age of Edwards, Newton and Whitefield (2015).

Introduction; Alec Ryrie and Tom Schwanda
1. 'Light accompanied with vital heat': affection and intellect in the thought of Richard Baxter; Keith Condie
2. Thomas Goodwin and the 'Supreme Happiness of Man'; Karl Jones
3. The Saints' Desire and Delight to be with Christ; Tom Schwanda
4. 'Milke and Honey': Puritan Happiness in the Writings of Robert Bolton, John Norden and Francis Rous; S. Bryn Roberts
5. Affliction and the Stony Heart in Early New England; Adrian Chastein Weimer
6. Piety and the Politics of Anxiety in Nonconformist Writing of the Later Stuart Period; David Walker
7. Resting Assured in Puritan Piety: the Lay Experience; Kate Narveson
8. Emotions and the Development of Virtue in Puritan Thought: An Investigation of Puritan Friendship; Nathaniel Warne
9. Puritan Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Piety; Willem J. op 't Hof