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English Calvinism

The Will of God in Massachusetts I. Apples and Oranges: New England and the Chesapeake II. English Calvinism III. The Puritan Community: the “Visible Saints” IV. The Tension Within Terms: Calvinism “Election” Visible Saints “Modell of Christian Charity John Winthrop.

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English Calvinism

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  1. The Will of God in MassachusettsI. Apples and Oranges: New England and the ChesapeakeII. English CalvinismIII. The Puritan Community: the “Visible Saints”IV. The Tension WithinTerms:Calvinism“Election”Visible Saints“Modell of Christian CharityJohn Winthrop

  2. Themes:1) The Puritans believed themselves always subject to the unalterable and foreordained will of God.2) This gave them their sense of community and their arrogance. It was also the cause of their deepest insecurities.3) This has had a long-term effect on American religion.

  3. English Calvinism

  4. John (Jean) Calvin, 1509-1564

  5. T.U.L.I.P.

  6. Geneva Bible, 1560 (first printed in England 1575)

  7. King James Bible, 1611

  8. Puritans at Work

  9. John Donne, 1572-1631

  10. The Puritan Community:Settlement

  11. Puritan Migration

  12. John Winthrop, 1587/8 – 1649 Governor of Massachusetts 13 times

  13. The Puritans’ Arrival

  14. Main Towns of New England, ca. 1650

  15. The Puritan Community: Maintaining the “City On a Hill”

  16. Harvard, 1636

  17. John Harvard, 1607-1638

  18. Bay Psalm Book, first book published in North America, 1640

  19. Bay Psalm Book

  20. “Old Ship” Meeting House, Hingham, MA, 1681

  21. The Sermon: The Most Common Form of Puritan Intellectual Activity

  22. Portrait of Increase Mather(1639-1723)Pastor, North Church and President of Harvard

  23. Richard Mather, 1596-1669Arrived in Boston, 1635. Minister in Dorchester until his death.

  24. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728

  25. The Will of God and the Indians

  26. The Puritans’ Arrival: They Landed in a Place Depleted by Disease

  27. Seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  28. Indian village surrounded by a stockade.

  29. Pequot Massacre, 1637

  30. Massacre of the Pequots at Mystic, May 26, 1637. Only 14 out of 600-700 survived.

  31. The Failure of the Puritan CommunityI. The Consciousness of Sin - The Spiritual Journal of John Barnard (1654-1732)II. The Impossibility of a City on a Hill 1) The Presence of Sin: The True and False Principles of Trade (1639) 2) Compromises with the World: a) The Halfway Covenant b) Sumptuary LawsIII. Land, Class and Community

  32. Terms:John Barnard Sumptuary Laws“Spiritual Milk for American Babes” (1646)True & False Principles of Trade (1639)Halfway Covenant (1662)

  33. Themes:1) Puritans lived with tremendous inner tension. The consciousness of sin always battled with the aspiration toward grace.2) Their perfect community was doomed to failure. Human imperfections and growing social tensions made it impossible to sustain.

  34. The Tension Within

  35. John Cotton, Spiritual Milk for American Babes (1646) reflects the inner anxieties of Puritanism

  36. John Cotton, 1585-1652

  37. The Spiritual Journal of John Barnard

  38. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728

  39. His worthiness to receive the Lord’s Supper was a prime concern of Cotton Mather’s parishioner John Barnard (1654-1732)

  40. The Impossibility of Puritan Community

  41. "forced worship stinks in God's nostrils“ – Roger Williams.Williams arrived in Massachusetts in 1631 and was in exile in Rhode Island by 1636

  42. True & False Principles

  43. Solomon Stoddard’s House, NorthamptonStoddard was a major supporter of the Halfway Covenant

  44. Sumptuary Laws Attempted to Control How Puritans Dressed

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