Rise of Puritanism
Religion in America
Origins of Puritanism
Queen Elizabeth, 1558-1603
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1559-1563:
the via media
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John
Knox in Scotland: Presbyterianism
Pope: Elizabeth a heretic, 1570
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Undeclared
war with Spain
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Spanish
Armada defeated, 1588
The “Puritans”
1564:
Purify the church of Catholic remnants
Discipline:
Creating a church organization
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Congregations, presbyteries, a general assembly
Separatism
for the impatient
Conventicle
Act of 1593
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Crackdown on Puritans & separatists
Piety:
developing the religious life
Promoting
religious experience with no means to control it
Puritan Theology
Salvation: the centrality of conversion
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Depravity; Conviction; Justification; Sanctification;
Glorification
Covenant Theology
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Covenants with God
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Covenant of Works (Moses)
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Covenant of Grace (Jesus)
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Individual covenant
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Church covenant
King James I
First truly Protestant monarch, 1603
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Hampton Court conference, 1604
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Puritans rebuffed: “No bishops, no king”
Clamps down on Separatists & Puritans
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Scrooby Separatists to Holland, 1607;
then Plymouth, 1621
Anti-Calvinism
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Synod of Dort, Netherlands, 1619
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TULIP: Condemning the Arminian heresy
Charles I, 1625
Catholic wife, Mary
Arminianism the path to church success
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Archbishop William Laud, 1633
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Very “Romish”
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Complete suppression of Puritan preaching
Censors Calvinist books
Rules without Parliament after 1629
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Tyranny + Arminianism = Catholic conspiracy?