Puritan New England

Religion in America

Refuge in America

     Protestantism in danger?

      30 Years’ War, 1618-1648

      La Rochelle, France

      Charles I and Laud

     Going to America

      Prophesied in Revelation

     The Great Migration: 1630-1642

      15-20,000 immigrants

The “Bible Commonwealth”

     An ideal Christian society like Geneva

     The “City on a Hill”

     Bible as basis for law and morality

     Covenants

      Town covenants

      Covenant as a people

     Consensus

     An equitable, sustainable society

 

Congregationalism

     Congregational polity

      Church membership & conversion, 1636

      Church membership & franchise & public office

     No “human inventions”

      Printing press: Bay Psalm Book, 1640

     Harvard College, 1636

 

Puritan Life

     Family based; no living alone

      A “little commonwealth”

      Father rules the household

      Suppressing children’s wills

     Moderate enjoyment of life

      The work ethic: useful, productive, sober, industrious

     Controlling dissent, establishing authority

      Roger Williams

      Anne Hutchinson and the antinomian controversy

 

Puritans and Indians

     Indians

      “Come over and help us”?

      Minions of Satan?

     The Pequot War, 1636

      Exterminating a “proud” and “haughty” tribe

     John Eliot & Praying Towns, 1649

      Never completely accepted