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Is America “A City Upon A Hill”?

Is America “A City Upon A Hill”?. The Puritans. 1629 - Mass. Bay Co. Purify Anglican church 1630s - Great Migration Who: Cambridge educated Leader: John Winthrop. Beliefs. Man fallible, sinful Predestination Salvation unknown Life devoted to God

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Is America “A City Upon A Hill”?

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  1. Is America “A City Upon A Hill”?

  2. The Puritans • 1629 - Mass. Bay Co. • Purify Anglican church • 1630s - Great Migration • Who: Cambridge educated • Leader: John Winthrop

  3. Beliefs • Man fallible, sinful • Predestination • Salvation unknown • Life devoted to God • Material prosperity good, but too much bad • “Puritan Dilemma”

  4. A Model of Christian Charity • 1630 • The Word creates world

  5. “History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction, set by liberty and the Author of Liberty….America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout the world and to all the inhabitants thereof.” “Freedom is God’s gift to everybody in the world.” “And I believe we have a duty to free people.”

  6. Fracturing of Puritan Idea • 1649 - Maryland passes Religious Tolerance Act • Philadelphia - “city of brotherly love” • William Penn, Quaker

  7. Roger Williams • 1631 - MA • Each individual cements relationship with God • God not bound by previous covenants • 1631 founded Providence, RI

  8. Anne Hutchinson • 1631 in MA • Good works can’t save you • Trial in 1636 • Went to RI in 1637

  9. Community “We the people” Pete Seer Individual Each person’s pursuit of happiness key Bob Dylan Winthrop v. Williams/Hutchinson

  10. Great Awakening: NE 1740 • Wave of Utopian ideas • Jonathan Edwards • Yale educated • Everyone equal • God has power to save or damn • Created skepticism of authority • Individualism strengthened

  11. Is America “ A City Upon A Hill”? • What does Puritan nation mean? • In what ways has America incorporated the Puritan ethos? In what ways has it not?

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