David D. Hall’s book comprises a transatlantic history of the Puritan movement from its sixteenth-century emergence to its heyday under Oliver Cromwell and its subsequent political demise after 1660. Hall provides insights into the movement’s trajectory, including the various forms of Puritan belief and practice in England and Scotland and their transatlantic migration. In Hall’s sweeping view, Puritanism was a driving force for cultural change in the early modern Atlantic world and left an indelible mark on religion in America. The four reviewers praise Hall’s book for its monumental achievement, with Abram Van Engen emphasizing the centrality of Puritan theology. They place it within its historiographical context, as Evan Haefeli does by comparing it with Michael Winship’s Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America (2018) and as Fred van Lieburg does by reminding us of the centuries-old German tradition of Pietismusforschung. The reviewers also raise critical questions as to the audience of Puritan publications and point to the benefits of studying Puritanism in an even wider comparative framework, one that looks forwards and backwards in time and one that speaks to the large, overarching questions raised by global history and digital humanities, including Andrew Pettegree’s ustc project. In his response David Hall begins by acknowledging the decades of Anglo-American scholarship on the Puritan movement on which his book builds, replies to points raised by the reviewers, and reflects on the situation of Puritan studies in the United States at this moment in time.

David D. Hall 的书讲述了清教运动的跨大西洋历史，从 16 世纪的兴起到奥利弗·克伦威尔 (Oliver Cromwell) 领导下的鼎盛时期，以及随后在 1660 年之后的政治消亡。霍尔提供了对该运动轨迹的洞察，包括各种形式的清教徒信仰和实践在英格兰和苏格兰以及他们的跨大西洋移民。在霍尔的全面观点中，清教是早期现代大西洋世界文化变革的推动力，并在美国的宗教上留下了不可磨灭的印记。四位评论者称赞霍尔的书取得了巨大的成就，亚伯兰·范恩根强调了清教徒神学的中心地位。他们将其置于其历史背景中，正如埃文·海菲利（Evan Haefeli）将其与迈克尔·温希普（Michael Winship）的Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America (2018) 和 Fred van Lieburg 所做的，提醒我们数百年的德国虔诚传统。审稿人还对清教徒出版物的受众提出了批评性问题，并指出了在更广泛的比较框架中研究清教主义的好处，该框架可以及时向前和向后回顾，并针对全球历史提出的大型总体问题进行讨论。和数字人文科学，包括安德鲁·佩格里的中科大项目。在他的回应中，大卫霍尔首先承认了几十年来英美关于清教运动的学术研究，他的书建立在这个基础上，回答了评论者提出的观点，并及时反思了此时美国清教徒研究的情况.