The Puritans’ Quest for Utopia in New England
History 103
Sept. 14, 1998
Puritanism as a Cultural System
- English Reformation
- John Calvin
Puritan Precepts
- Gulf between God and individual
- Justification (salvation) by faith alone
- Predestination
- Calling
- Conversion experience
- Covenant
Planting Plymouth
- Pilgrim separatists
- From starving time to stability
- Absorption into Massachusetts Bay
Making Massachusetts Bay
- Charter
- Democratic form, religious basis of government
- Signs of success
- Expulsions: Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson
Declension
- Jeremiad
- Puritan Revolution in England
- Worldly temptations
- Conversion crisis
King Philip’s War, 1675-76
Toward Integration into the British Empire
- Revocation of original charter (1684)
- Dominion of New England (1686-89)
- Glorious Revolution in England (1688) and New England (1689)
- New charter (1691)
- Salem witchcraft crisis (1692)