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| Upchuck (profile) wrote, on 9-16-2002 at 11:54am | |
| Current mood: academic Music: "Georgia On My Mind" Subject: Not found to be in the best interests of Puritanical America |
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| The "special commission" that John Winthrop and his followers believed that they had recieved was to become a divine example. This example was suppossed to be a "shining city on hill" for all of Christendom to look upon as an example in their worship of God. This commission was to be fulfilled by adhering to the Calvinistic viewpoints involving predestination. Following these viewpoints a person was to discover whether or not they were predestined as saved or damned, by their behavior within the community. Due to their highly radical views on the purification of the Anglican Church, the Puritans faced difficulties in obtaining permission to settle a piece of the New World. Not only was there the problems of obtaingin permission, but also the issue of survival on the high seas. Once the original memebers of the Massachusetts Bay Company arrived in North America they faced many difficulties in locating a place to settle. Originally, Charlestown was founded as a center for the company. After the exploration of the bay the following spring, the center was moved to present day Salem where it was retained for two more winters. Then later, and permantently moved to Boston due to better land for farming. After becoming established in Boston, the colony faced other challenges, but none so as important as the influence of separtism. Since the Puritans themselves were a form of separtist (although they did not consider themselves as such) they frowned on further ideas of separatism. They even went as far as banishing those who disagreed with their doctorines such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson. As many would think, it was not because they were too liberal for Puritanical society, but rather because they wished to push further from the Anglican Church and more towards a highly conservastive form of society. |
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ThoughtspaceMine | 12-24-02 6:18pm This is not what I had understood about the ideas of Anne Hutchinson at all. I thought that Anne Hutchinson had taken a rational look at the predestination argument and had found it logically untenable. What did I miss? |
Upchuck | Re:, 12-25-02 7:38pm It was a paper I had to do for my American History class. I commute to my classes 45 minutes, so I when I want to work on a paper there, I post it and cut and paste it at home.
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| ThoughtspaceMine | Re: Re:, 12-27-02 12:44am It always frustrated me when I was required to regurgitate the arguments or hypotheses of others. Wouldn't it be a better measure of our ability to absorb and evaluate information to have us critique (or, at the very least, compare) the historical interpretations we are assigned as reading? |