The Religious Experience of John Humphrey Noyes, Founder of the Oneida Community

xiii, 416 pp. With seventeen illustrations. "This account of the early life of John Humphrey Noyes carries him to his twenty-seventh year, when he founded a religious community at Putney, Vermont, embodying the radical religious and social principles that later brought such fame to the Oneida Community, of which it was the precursor. The life of Noyes is in many ways representative of the religious fervors and theological bitterness of his time. He was born in Vermont, studied at Dartmouth and at Yale Theological School, became a perfectionists, and went about casting out devils. His active mind, genuine piety, and complete assurance of his sinlessness make this carefully documented account of his life interesting as a character study, besides being valuable as a record of the founding of a communal religious enterprise which afterward attained great prominence."--jacket