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Period: 1500 to
Movement
Puritanism is a religious and social movement that began in England and spread to America.The Puritans founded settlements along the New England coast and organized their government based off of the teachings of the Bible- which they thought was the true law that provided guidelines for church government- and also their English experience. -
Period: 1500 to
Movement 2
Puritanism shaped and influenced social, political and religious institutions.They influenced the development of American democratic principles and their strong belief in education led them to establish Harvard and Yale.While the movement died down in England it Influenced protestant denominations in England and America -
Period: 1500 to
Themes
-People are inherent sinners and had to be devoted to God to attempt to reach salvation.
-Sinners who did not conform to God were ruthlessly tortured in hell.
-Life is God's ultimate test
-If one failed to pass Gods test, he will be damned forever and be sent to hell
-If one passed Gods test, he will be sent to heaven and live prosperously. -
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William Bradford
-Plymouth Colony governor
-Sailed from England on the Mayflower
-Of Plymouth Plantation serves to tell the history of the Plymouth colony and how God’s intervention is undefined -
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Anne Bradstreet
-First writer in the North American Colonies to have a poem published
-“Upon the Burning of Our House” 1666
-Believed that God owns everything and has the power to take it away whenever he pleases
-God also controls life and death
-Speaks through self-experience -
The Pilgrims
The pilgrims set sail for America on the Mayflower. The Puritans settled in present day Massachusetts and founded a colony at Plymouth. -
The Founding of Rhode Island
The Puritan preacher, Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony for spreading new, but dangerous opinions. Once he was banished he went on to found the colony of Rhode island. -
The Pequot War
The Puritans fought the Pequot war against the Pequot Indian tribe, in Plymouth Massachusetts. The tribe attacked the Puritans for the English efforts to break the Dutch-Pequot Fur and wampum trade. -
Of Plymouth Plantation
-Written over a few years
-God’s intervention in the universe is connected to some divine purpose unable for humans to comprehend
-A major theme is that misbehaving Christians were undeserving of eternal love in Heaven
-God’s intervention will continue whether in good or bad ways as long it they help their faith
-God control over the universe is completely up to him and how he wishes things to happen -
Upon the Burning of Our House
-Written by Anne Bradstreet to show that objects and possessions are worthless, and that the only thing with worth is going to Heaven after death.
-God’s plan will outlive and outlast your own
-Like Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, a theme that God’s plan may be harsh, but eternity in Heaven will always be better than the alternative.
-One of the first poems in the New World.
-Bradstreet’s possessions mean nothing to her when the realization of her faith became evident. -
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Jonathan Edwards
-Attended Yale at age 14
-Inspired by John Locke’s Enlightenment Ideas
-Believed Holiness belonged to a much greater being
-Preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” on July 8th, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut
-Leader of religious revivals
-Mainly taught about how Heaven can and will be harmful
-Believed that if something bad had happened to someone, they committed a sin that was the cause of it -
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
-Jonathan Edwards wrote this sermon in 1741.-Wrote to explain to sinners that they should fear God and that his judgement is harsh.
-Themes that are evident throughout the speech
-Sinners face a fearful, harsh judgement
-Time does not last for those who refuse to repent because the wrath of God will come quickly.
-God chooses when his wrath shall come.
-Main purpose is to explain to the congregation that they must repent for ALL sins or else they will be inevitably tortured in Hell -
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: Event
Jonathan Edwards was a puritan preacher, and philosopher. On this date Edwards gives his Service to scare the townspeople back into the church known as sinners in the hand of an angry God
