In The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, as well as successor The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.
PART 1: RELIGION AND LEARNING 1. The Augustinian Strain of Piety 2. The Practice of Piety 3. The Intellectual Character 4. The Intellectual Heritage PART 2: COSMOLOGY 5. The Instrument of Reason 6. Knowledge 7. The Uses of Reason 8. Nature PART 3: ANTHROPOLOGY 9. The Nature of Man 10. The Means of Conversion 11. Rhetoric 12. The Plain Style PART 4: SOCIOLOGY 13. The Covenant of Grace 14. The Social Covenant 15. The Church Covenant 16. God's Controversy with New England Appendix A. The Literature of Ramus' Logic in Europe Appendix B. The Federal School of Theology Notes Index
