Is America “A City Upon A Hill”?

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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• Material prosperity

good, but too much bad

• “Puritan Dilemma”

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A Model of Christian Charity

• 1630• The Word creates

world

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“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.”

Fracturing of Puritan Idea

• 1649 - Maryland passes Religious Tolerance Act

• Philadelphia - “city of brotherly love”– William Penn, Quaker

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Roger Williams

• 1631 - MA• Each individual

cements relationship with God

• God not bound by previous covenants

• 1631 founded Providence, RI

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Anne Hutchinson

• 1631 in MA• Good works can’t save

you• Trial in 1636 • Went to RI in 1637

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Winthrop v. Williams/Hutchinson

• Community• “We the people”• Pete Seer

• Individual• Each person’s pursuit

of happiness key• Bob Dylan

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

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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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