CAS HI 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Puritans, Unconditional Election
29 Aug 2016
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Ma has an enduring reputation of being a center of education. Puritans were seen as bland, repressive of other views, rigid, strict. Puritans were deeply concerned about the state of their souls. To them, drinking was fine, but drunkenness was a sin. In fact, winthrop did grant licensure for alehouses. Girls should be able to read the scriptures as well as boys. Girls could not attend school, but oftentimes men would teach their daughters. It is a movement within the church of england. Defined by their enemies who denounced them as puritans - originally a term of derision. Pilgrims thought that the church of england was so hopelessly corrupt and they cannot be reformed so they decided to break from it. While puritans did not separate from it; they were just trying to purify and reform it. If you do not comply, you can be seen as a deviator.
