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The Puritans

The Puritans. Movements In American Literature. New England Primer. A: In Adam’s Fall We Sinned all. B: Thy Life to Mend This Book Attend. H: My Book and Heart Shall never part. Source. F: The Idle Fool Is whipt at School. Y: Youth forward slips, Death soonest nips.

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The Puritans

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  1. The Puritans Movements In American Literature

  2. New England Primer A: In Adam’s Fall We Sinned all B: Thy Life to Mend This Book Attend H: My Book and Heart Shall never part Source

  3. F: The Idle Fool Is whipt at School Y: Youth forward slips, Death soonest nips Benjamin Harris, Puritan Minister, late 17th century What can we tell about Puritan culture from The New England Primer?

  4. Puritans Key Beliefs • Absolute Authority of God – God is the headof everything. • Total Depravity – through Adam and Eve's fall, every person is born sinful – concept of Original Sin. • Unconditional Election – God "saves" those he wishes - only a few are selected for salvation – concept of predestination. • Limited Atonement –Jesus died for the chosen only, not for everyone. • Irresistible Grace - God's grace is freely given, it cannot be earned or denied. Grace is defined as the saving and transfiguring power of God. • Perseverance of the "saints" - those elected by God have full power to interpret the will of God, and to live uprightly. If anyone rejects grace after feeling its power in his life, he will be going against the will of God - something impossible in Puritanism. --Paul Reuben http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap1/1intro.html#basic

  5. LegacyLasting Effects of Puritan Ideas • The need for moral justification for private, public, and governmental acts. • The Desire for Freedom - personal, political, economic, and social. • The Puritan work ethic. • Elegiac verse - morbid fascination with death. • The city upon the hill - concept of manifest destiny (the US was meant to expand across the N. American continent) .

  6. Puritan Writing The Function of Puritan Writers • To transforma mysterious God - mysterious because God is separate from the world. • To make God more relevantto the universe. • To glorifyGod. The Style of Puritan Writing • Protestant: against ornateness; reverence for the Bible. • Purposeful: to glorify God and make God relevant in the universe • Reflectiveof Reading Public: literate and well-grounded in religion.

  7. Puritan Art Unidentified artist, Elizabeth Clarke Freake (Mrs. John Freake) and Baby Mary, about 1671 and 1674, oil on canvas What seems important in this painting? What colors dominate? What can you tell about the home life? What can you tell about Mrs. Freake from the way she is dressed? Source

  8. Puritan Art Thomas Smith, Self-Portrait, about 1680, oil on canvas

  9. Puritan Furniture What do you notice about the structure of the chairs? How might the structure reflect the philosophy of the Puritans?

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