Cotton Mather (1663-1728) The leading New England theologian of his period, Mather was both a defender of Reformed orthodoxy and an intellectual innovator, who propagated the Pietist renewal of Protestantism and embraced ideas of the Early Enlightenment. Best knwn for his Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), he published more than 400 works in various fields including church history, natural theology, and medicine. Read More Read Less