Puritan
New England
Religion in America
Refuge in America
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Protestantism in danger?
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Going to America
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Prophesied in Revelation
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The Great Migration: 1630-1642
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15-20,000 immigrants
The “Bible Commonwealth”
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An ideal Christian society like Geneva
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Bible as basis for law and morality
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Covenants
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Town covenants
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Covenant as a people
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Consensus
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A just, equitable, sustainable society
Congregationalism
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Congregational polity
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Church membership & conversion, 1636
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Church membership & franchise & public office
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No “human inventions”
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Printing press: Bay Psalm Book, 1640
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Harvard College, 1636
Puritan Life
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Family based; no living alone
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Moderate enjoyment of life
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The work ethic: useful, productive, sober, industrious
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Controlling dissent, establishing authority
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Roger Williams
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Anne Hutchinson and the antinomian controversy
Puritans and Indians
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Indians
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“Come over and help us”?
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Minions of Satan?
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The Pequot War, 1636
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Exterminating a “proud” and “haughty” tribe
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John Eliot & Praying Towns, 1649
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Never completely accepted