Next Time: Critical & Functional Literacies Puritan Typology Responses: Group 7 Abstracts: Alex & Justin
New England Primer –How would it make you feel? As a child? As a parent/teacher? Bay Psalm Book (hymnal) –Read Psalm 1 only –How would it make you feel?
Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity” (sermon) –How would it make you feel about him, as a leader? Winthrop’s “journal” –Apply Greenblatt’s “self-fashioning” to determine “authorities” & “aliens”
Dates: 1607 — Jamestown (Smith) 1620 — Plymouth Plantation (Bradford) 1630 — Massachusetts Bay Colony (Winthrop)
Puritan & Separatist Theology & Reading Depravity (next slide) typology iconoclasm rituals Apply to Bradford & Morton
Total depravity Unconditional election Limited atonement Irresistible grace Perseverance of the Saints Apply to Bradford & Morton
Puritan & Separatist Theology & Reading Depravity (next slide) typology iconoclasm rituals Apply to Bradford & Morton
The New England Primer -Imagine the text’s impact on you as a child and as an adult
The New England Primer
Images and Rituals: The Bay Psalm Book Catholicism & icons — “reading” unwritten images, such as stained glass & statues Puritans & iconoclasm — replacing “physical” icons with “written” icons, such as the Bible, the Psalms, the Primer, other religious texts
Reading People Self? Others? Outward signs, bodily rituals, are key Unconditional election & Perseverance of the Saints
John Winthrop Three selections, three genres, three different views of the man Modell of Christian Charity (1630) Form sermon Appeals to reason by structure of argument & scripture citations Appeals to reason & emotion through imagery & scripture citations
John Winthrop Three selections, three genres, three different views of the man Modell of Christian Charity (1630) ∙ content - opening: economic differences - middle: love, moral and Christian - end: New England as “city on a hill”
Christian Experience (1637) content - role playing through rhetoric - works and grace - “marriage” to the “word” form - commonplaces of auto/biography with a spiritual slant
Authorities & Aliens: the Journal form structure by the day rather than retrospectively narrative history public vs. private writings
content - reading signs (mouse kills snake) - Williams (1633), three points of admonishment - Hutchinson (1636), indwelling spirit
Journal, continued content - authority vs. freedom - select magistrates you agree with; sympathize with their weaknesses
Next Time Group 1 Responses Abstracts? Poetry: Taylor & Bradstreet Where do you see images of depravity? Where do you see self-assertion? How do you see gender-associated images used?
Bradstreet –Prologue –Upon the Burning –To Her Husband –Before the Birth Taylor –Huswifery –Upon Wedlock & Death of Children –Meditation 26. –A Fig for Thee, O Death