grade CP English Puritans Puritans are a group of people that emerged within the Church of England They shared common criticisms of the Anglican Church and English society and government One group the Congregationalists settled Plymouth in the 1620s and then Massachusetts Bay Connect ID: 372489
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11th grade CP English
PuritansSlide2
Puritans are a group of people that emerged within the Church of England They shared common
criticisms of the Anglican Church and English society and
governmentOne group, the Congregationalists, settled Plymouth in the 1620s and then Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Rhode Island in the 1630sAnother group, the Presbyterians, settled many communities in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania during the late seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century.
Break from Church of EnglandSlide3
The term "Puritan" first began as a taunt or insult applied by traditional Anglicans to those who criticized or wished to "purify" the Church of England. The term "Puritan" refers to two distinct groups:
"separating" Puritans (Plymouth colonists) believed that the Church of England was corrupt and that true Christians must separate themselves from it;
non-separating Puritans, (those who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony) believed in reform but not separation. What is a Puritan? Slide4
sought to cleanse the culture of what they regarded as corrupt, sinful practices. They believed that the civil government should strictly enforce public morality
drunkenness
, gambling, ostentatious dress, swearing, and Sabbath-breaking were not allowed. They also wished to purge churches of every vestige of Roman Catholic ritual and practiceboth Congregationalist and Presbyterian worship services were simple, even austere, and dominated by long, learned sermons in which their clergy expounded passages from the Bible.
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in both churches was limited to the “visibly godly,” meaning those men and women who lead sober and upright lives.
New England Congregationalists adopted even stricter standards for admission to their churches—the requirement that each person applying for membership testify publicly to his or her experience of “conversion.”
What were their lives like? Slide5
Most Massachusetts colonists were nonseparating Puritans who wished to reform the established church.
Puritans believed in Predestination
All humans are born sinners and God decides who to “save”Beliefs of PuritansSlide6
Sweeping changes in EuropeBeginnings of modern capitalism—both the growth of trade and the commercialization of agriculture—were yielding profits
creating inflation and unemployment
The rich were getting richer, and the poor much poorergrowing numbers of unemployed people became vagrants, beggars, and petty criminals..WHY????Slide7
The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century had ruptured the unity of late medieval
Christen beliefs
Bloody religious wars ensued that led to lasting tensions between Catholics and Protestants. Finally, Europeans had “discovered” and begun colonizing what was to them an entirely new and strange world in the Americas. All of these momentous changes were profoundly unsettling to ordinary men and women, heightening their need for social order, intellectual and moral certainty, and spiritual consolation
Protestant ReformationSlide8
Both ordinary New Englanders—and their “betters,” including college-educated clergymen—also lived in what one historian has aptly called “worlds of wonder.” These “wonders” include the belief in witches, the power of Satan to assume visible form, and a variety of other preternatural phenomena The
foretelling power of dreams, strange prodigies, “monstrous” births, and miraculous deliverances.
Supernatural Beliefs and Witchcraft