Israel Redivivus: The Eschatological Limits of Puritan Typology in New England

Abstract

RITICS have long been fascinated by Puritan typology and its myth-making power as it conferred divine approval on the Puritans' Errand into the Wilderness. As the familiar argument goes, American Puritans, blending their vision of an American New Jerusalem with their own status as God's chosen people in their New English Canaan, extended their typological reading of the Old Testament prophecies beyond their New Testament abrogation and fulfillment into a new covenant theology. As the literal, spiritual, and figural heirs of Israel's blessings, the Puritans could look forward to a future, progressive fulfillment of biblical prophecies within American secular history. New England, and the American continent at large, thus would not only play a leading role in the events culminating in the Second Coming of Christ but would also become the seat of the New Jerusalem, the City of God which would descend

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