The Influence Of The Puritans

In the 1630's and the 1640's, the Puritans traveled to the colonies to detach from their opinion of a convoluted Church of England. They set up towns and started new lives that were all based on their idea of a pure religion. The Puritan's definition of a pure religion did not include many of the ideas of the Church of England. They built the colonies and made a system based upon the idea that God was the most important aspect of life. Puritan ideas and values influenced the political, economic, and social development of the New England colonies from 1630 through the 1660’s by spreading their beliefs into every facet of daily life. Politically their ideas regarding what was considered sinful behavior and how power was separated among the

The Puritans sought reforms for the Church of England that differed from that of the Independents or Separatists on their view of the Catholic Church. They held to certain beliefs in which they wanted to see a greater reform, to purify the Anglican Church and make it so it did not resemble the Catholic Church in its practices and government. They wanted to move it from the traditional church style to a more Presbyterian Church form of government.

The Church of England intended to separate from Catholicism and introduce reforms in a new Protestant religion. The Puritans however thought that the Church of England still held too many of the Catholic church’s beliefs. In the Puritan religion, there was an emphasis on sovereignty and righteousness. It was also believed that all humans were depraved sinners who were unable to deem themselves worthy to God. The Puritans did believe in a predestination of some sort where God chose who was worthy for salvation, and people who did not live accordingly to the Lord’s divine law were rightly punished. The Puritans believed that it was their goal to become a “New Jerusalem.” They believed that God and Satan were in everyday life and the center of their lives was religion. The

From the Rurik to Ivan The Terrible, we see the impacts of the historical firsts on the latter’s social, economic, and political development of Russia as well as its neighbors. Moreover, the same can be said about the Puritans on New England during the mid 17th century. The religious and cultural ideas and similarities between the social structure as well as political landscape of early New England as a whole is evident in numerous cases; however, the impact of the Puritans were not the singular driving force behind New England’s policies as some were in stark contrast. With their ideas as well as the want to separate from the Church of England wholly as well as remain English, Puritans -- or separatists as the Mayflower group was called --

The Puritans were a group of people with strong beliefs, ideas and values in the 1630’s to the 1660’s. Their ideas influenced society in multiple ways during this time including politically, economically, and socially. Politically, they believed in having a theocratic government , economically, they used the value of hard work to run the economy and stimulate prosperity and also, socially the influence of the religion and the need for a tight knit communtiy influenced New England in many more ways than one. All of these influences were part of the ideological belief of the Puritans to attain a “City Upon a Hill” society where they would have the perfect community and established ethos for other communities to later follow in their footsteps.

In the 1600’s, Puritans, which were sometimes called “precisionists” arrived in New England, were part of an activist movement within the Church of England. Amid the 1600s, waves of Puritan outsiders landed in the locale of New England, settling the territory and creating populace focuses in zones like Massachusetts Bay, where the some piece of Boston was built. Rather than the Chesapeake district's tenants, the Puritan pilgrims did not come essentially for financial diversions, but instead out of a longing to make a more unadulterated, good Christian culture focused around their road code of good living and stress on the family and group. Puritan’s believed that the Bible was God's true law, and that it provided a plan for living. “The established

Puritanism--a product of the protestant reformation--was founded on the belief that only those who have felt the presence of god should be given church membership. The Puritans beliefs strongly conflicted with the religious systems of England, causing them to search for a new home. The Pilgrims, being some of the first to leave England, traveled to holland for a 12 span and then eventually docked at Plymouth Bay in New England. Being outside of the Virginia Company’s territory their permission to settle was void, but settle they did. Following the pilgrims lead, in 1630 close to one thousand puritans sailed the Atlantic to escape persecution and settle in the new world. Due to a population comprised mainly of Puritans, The New England colonies were founded upon religious values. The Puritans religious beliefs caused them to set up a government built upon the church and to be xenophobic to non Puritans, but were ultimately the key to their colonies success.

In my thesis I contend that the Puritan society was successful because they came with family and friends from the same town or homes they originated from. Puritans also distributed lands amongst charters which created a stable economic status for all of the people living in the community. They were also able to befriend any neighboring Native Americans to avoid conflict that can harm or destroy their new successful society. Puritans came to New England with a new self-rule, meaning they left England because of religious persecution held against them. They were able to create a new successful society that lasted a very long time.

The Puritans believed that the Anglican Church had strayed too far from its roots, and that it needed to be purified from the Roman Catholic Church. They practiced the principles of Calvinism, and believed in the idea of predestination. They didn't believe in the hierarchy and ceremony of the Anglican Church. However, the weren't radical enough to want to split away from the Anglican Church. They believed that it could be saved and reformed from within.

The Puritans also wanted to have a system where everyone's voice could be heard, so they set up "congregational" and later knew them as "town meetings" ("Puritanism"). In America today we also hold "town meetings" to create a voice for the American people. The Puritans also believe in the idea of original depravity, or that everyone is full of sin-that sin was transferred to everyone from Adam. They believed that were predestined by God and only grace could save them- no good works, no baptism, and no prayers ("Puritanism"). While most Americans have adapted the theological belief of Christianity, some of the Puritan ideas such as; having an open and honest relationship with those around you, keeping no secrets, and relying on friends and family to help with religious and societal issues have transferred into the American society ("Puritans"). However, the Puritans are only remembered for their brash beliefs and their strict governments but that is not solely the

The puritans left their homeland to come to America for theocracy. They believed that the Bible and its message was above man’s law. They also believed in predestination. Predestinations are people who were either born sinful and bound to a life in Hell, or they were destined to be saved. Living under the Puritan beliefs is unfair and immoral. No one deserves that lifestyle.

The Puritans led their lives according to a strict moral code, centered around religion, which they had followed and conformed to. In addition conformity, Puritans believed, was crucial to uniting the community, and therefore resulted in anti-individualistic beliefs. However, when they deviated from the religious code they were threatened with banishment from the community and often experienced public shaming. Also the Puritans, whom had come to the colonies seeking religious freedom for themselves, cultivated a society that was intolerant of the practice of religious freedom for others. The Puritan influence enabled conformist tendencies based around a religious moral code which did not tolerate for deviation of Puritan beliefs that ultimately sacrificed individualism.

During the 1500s in england, the English broke apart the Roman Catholic Church and formed the English Protestant Church. The people who reformed their beifes from the Protestant Church became Puritans. They based the way they lived according to the bible, if it wasn’t in the bible they didn’t believe it was important. The Puritans believed that the Bible was the true and only law of God, and they denied the Church’s authority, seeking to clense both the Church and their own lives (Erick 1).

Nathaniel Hawthorne is respected as “one of the great masters of American Fiction” (“Hawthorne, Nathaniel” 363). He is an accomplished author who wrote novels as well as children’s literature. However, Hawthorne’s strength is American short story; his “haunting” tales are undeniably responsible for establishing this genre as a “significant art form” (“Nathaniel Hawthorne” Columbia 1). He is known for his “penetrating explorations” of the conflicts within one’s conscience and the consequences that plague his characters, as a result of their disobedience (“Nathaniel Hawthorne” 1). These “dilemmas” of the “human condition” are prominent in his story, “The Birth-Mark” (Tuerk 1). Mosses of an Old Manse, is a compilation of short stories; which

Puritanism can be described as belonging to a covenant relationship with the Lord with expectation to free them from their sins (“Puritanism/Religion”). Studies from “Puritanism/Religion” show that what set Puritanism apart from the rest was the way it was preached and the intense experience it gave many. The style and teaching of the Bible have evolved over time. According to the “Journal of Church and State,” the Puritans connected a covenant relationship with unifying themselves (2014). McMahon (n.d.) stated they wanted a pure church with the Word of God.