1. Is America “A City Upon A Hill”?

3. The Puritans 1629 - Mass. Bay Co. Purify Anglican church
1630s - Great Migration
Who: Cambridge educated
Leader: John Winthrop

4. Beliefs Man fallible, sinful Predestination Salvation unknown
Life devoted to God
Material prosperity good, but too much bad
“Puritan Dilemma”

5. A Model of Christian Charity
1630
The Word creates world

6. “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.”

7. Fracturing of Puritan Idea
Maryland passes Religious Tolerance Act
Philadelphia - “city of brotherly love”
William Penn, Quaker

8. Roger Williams 1631 - MA Each individual cements relationship with God
God not bound by previous covenants
1631 founded Providence, RI

9. Anne Hutchinson 1631 in MA Good works can’t save you Trial in 1636
Went to RI in 1637

10. Winthrop v. Williams/Hutchinson
Community
“We the people”
Pete Seer
Individual
Each person’s pursuit of happiness key
Bob Dylan

11. 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

12. 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?