PPT-Puritanism

By Sheridan Samberson Setting The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an E nglish S ettlement on the east coast of North America in the 17 th century Around presentday cities Salem and Boston. “The devil a puritan...”. Poor, Poor Malvolio.... According to critic Charles Lamb, “Malvolio (is) a tragi-comic figure” in the play. He is a victim of the trickery of Maria and her brood of drunkards. By the end of the play, . Paper for ETS Conference, November 2005 John Coffey University of Leicester, UK Historians of eighteenth - century Evangelicalism are in two minds when it comes to Puritanism. On the one hand, they r About. . The . Devil's Disciple is the only play by . George . Bernard Shaw set in . America, and takes place during the . time of the Revolutionary . War. It is . the . fictitious story . of Richard Dudgeon, an American hero. It was . and Puritanism 21 Sloane, Thomas O. Donne, Milton, and the End of Humanist Rhetoric . Berkeley: U of Sutherland, James. English Literature Taylor, Edward. The Unpublished Writings of Edward Tayl Life in the New World. 1620-1800. Puritans. Came from England as Pilgrims to escape religious persecution, circa 1620. Highly, highly (no, really—HIGHLY) religious people—think zealots and extremists. Why would a large number of English people leave their country and homes for a destination far across the Atlantic Ocean?. From 1630 to 1641, approximately 13,000 Puritans left England for New England – WHY?. This PowerPoint will help you review the five major periods of American literature that we have studied:. -- Puritanism (and the Colonial Period). -- Rationalism (and the Age of Reason). -- Romanticism. calvinism. How a Protestant Sect . defined America. Puritanism. is. Calvinism. . Who’s the guy with the beard?. John Calvin, French-born Swiss theologian. 1509 – 1564 (this makes him a contemporary of Martin Luther and the beginning of the Protestant Reformation). 1607-1800. “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all professors for God's sake. We shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going. Puritanism 1620 - 1800 Puritans • Came from England as Pilgrims to escape religious persecution, circa 1620 • Highly, highly (no, really — HIGHLY) religious people — thin of the American Cultural Identity 1 Andreea MINGIUC Key-words: covenant, the elect, exceptionalism, Puritan, typological thinking O The Historical Background. Puritanism. Salem Witch Trials. Puritanism. Believed in a strong connection between church and state (theocracy). Believed in a Covenant with God and with each other to follow moral codes in pursuit of eternal life. 1625-1700. AP FOCUS. Similarities and differences amongst the colonial regions, focusing on:. Geography. Politics. Economics. Religion. Social structure. Religious toleration and separation of church and state. mccarthyism. puritans. Christians began to feel that the church in england was corrupt.. Reformers believed the scripture dictates . Christian . life not the clergy.. These non-conformists wanted to .