Puritans Flashcards
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Patrick Collinson
three things that make up puritan theology
Justification
Sanctification
Predestination
what os Justification
original sin condems all humanity to damnation salvation is the free unmerited gift of god
what is sanctification
good works are the fruit not the cause of our salvation
- love of gods works is a sign of election
- the elect grow in holiness throughout their lives
- they may also grow to a state of assurance about their salvation
luther’s view of predestination
god has chosen who will be saved
Calvins view of election
God has two decrees, one is election, one is reprobation (teaches that some of mankind (the elect) are predestined by God for salvation, and the remainder, the reprobate, are left bound to their fallen sin nature to be condemned to damnation in the lake of fire)
what do english puritans believe
that it is possible to gain knowledge of your elect status
what does the 1618-19 dutch synod of dort discuss conclude
T=total depravity U=Unconditional election L= limited atonement I= irresistable grace P= preservation of the saints
R.T.Kendals description of puritans
‘experimantal calvinists’
Dixon’s description of puritans
‘practical predestenarians’
puritan good works
-based on 10 commandments
puritan emphasus
- importance of the sabbath
- preaching and the sacrements
- prayer bible reading and meditatin
- goly association
which Elizabethand contemporary described the elizabethan church as ‘a church but hafly reformed’
William fuller in ‘Booke to the Queene’
why were puritan standards so high
Many puritans had experienced fully reformed churches in continental exile
why did puritans think the church was ‘but hafly reformed’
- the Elizabethan Church retains cathedrals, vestments, bishops, church courts, canon law, ect.
- Elizabeth is also determined to maintain the status quo
- Liturgy and church governance become hot issues
what does adiaphora mean
- Greek word meaning ;things indifferent
- grey area, things neither prescribed nor proscribed by scripture
- debates rise about which authority is greater, the authority of the church or scripture
when was the vestiarian controversy
1566
what happened in the vestiarian contrversy
- former exiles refues to wear vestments
- re run of edwardian Hooper Ridley controversy
- Archbishop Mathew Parker lacked support from queen and council
- fourced some radicals into open and covert opposition
when was the admonition controversy
1572
when was the Marprelate controversy
1588-9
what caused the admonition controversy
- Admonition to Parliament,Puritan manifesto, published in 1572 and written by the London clergymen John Field and Thomas Wilcox, that demanded that Queen Elizabeth I restore the purityof New Testament worship in the Church of England and eliminate the remaining Roman Catholic elements and practices from the Church of England
- admonition advocated greater direct reliance on the authority of the Scriptures
- The Queen, however, resisted this document. The authors were imprisoned and the leader of the Presbyterians, Thomas Cartwright, was forced to flee England after publishing A Second Admonition to Parliament in support of the first.
- clergy who refused to conform to the compulsory form of worship that had been promulgated by Elizabeth in 1559 (as the Act of Uniformity) lost their pulpits or were imprisoned.
reasons why a more tentative return to Protestantism ..
1) people less likely to believe that change was for certian
2) resiliance of marys catholic teaching
what di denglish goverment do in the face of catholic rebeliousness ?
1) all clergymen required to sign up to 39 articles
2) all layity were required to take communion according to the rite of the ook of common prayer
3 became treasonable offence to say that the queen was a heretic
why did subscription to book of common prayer cause problems for puritans ?
-had long accepted with its deficiencied because it encouraged the peace and unity of the church … but when required to subscribe secided should probs point of ‘popery’ in book
what did Thomas Cartwright have to say about the episcopal order of the church?
there should be 4 orders of ministers . teaching elders, ruling elders, deacons and theological professors. no minister was to be above anyother minister
what was the marprelate controversy ?
as a war of pamphlets waged in England and Wales in 1588 and 1589, between a puritan writer who employed the pseudonym Martin Marprelate, and defenders of the Established Church.
when was the marprelate controversy
1588-1589
what were the first two tracts published by Marprelate ?
The Epistle (1588) The epitome (1588)
READERSHIP OF mARPRELATE TRACTS
- Distribution covered the whole country and was cheap–Pamphlets were sold out of homes or under the counter
- Some copies may have made it to the continent
who wrote ‘the golden chain’
William Perkins
what was the golden chain
a text on puritan practical divinity, a way of workign out wether one was part of the elect or not
what does the golden chain contain ?
an ‘ordo solutis diagram’ … which was an occular Catechism ahowign the cheif points of religion and the order of them
- it displays the puritian notion of predestination and the status standing of the elect and reprobate in the populace
interesting factois about Perkins golden chain
writes 6000 words on the commandment ‘though shalt not kill’
When was Thomas Watsons ‘The godly mans picture’ written ?
1666
what was the purpose of Thomas Watsons ‘The godly Mans Picture’ ?
- provide a description of the prefect godly person
- discusses in detal in 144 pages the traits of a godly man.
- could hel one determin wether or not he also had these traits
example from the T.W’s the godly mans picture
‘SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF A MAN WHO IS GOING TO HEVAN’
Man of knowledge, moved by faith, careful about worship of god, serves god not men, loves the world, man of humility , man of prayer
when was phillip stubbs anatomy of abuses published ?
1583
what was philip stubbs anatomy of abuses ?
a virulent attack manners, customs, amusements and fashions of the period including the theatre, gambling, alcohol and fashion, and is still valuable for its copious information on the cultural attitudes of the time
who was Nehemiah Wallington
wood turner form a humbel background … not weathly
why is Nehemiah Wallington important
because he left 50 note books ‘record of the miracles of gods mercies’, in which he struggles with he constant reflection on whether or not he is a member of the elect. contemplates suicide on numerous occasions. however towards end it becomes apparent that he is becoming convinced of his elect status
what are some of the things that Wallington records hims self doing in order to determin his status as a mamber of the reprobate or the elect
- makes lists of sins and virtues
- attempts sin jar
- constantly refrencing against 10 commandments
who wrote ‘book of rememberance after her sisters death in 1638
Elizabeth Isham
why is isham’s account important
-choice to examine herself in writing. discusses her depression and suicide attempts and wether she is elect or not .. similar to nehemiah wallington
why was there controverys over the 1572 chester witsun plays ?
-Annoyed that parts embellished for play purposes, no longer true to scripture,
-angered by the fact that the angels sung a lewd and merry song
-Point 19 states that Christ promises bliss for good works . . . . and point 20 that peter is said to create Matthias an apostle bot reminiscent of catholic faith and also incorrect there are 12 apostles not 1 -
Finally it affirms purgatory and features the devil . purgatory is catholic sentiment . and uncomfortable with representation of the devil,,,, could potentiall be seen as iconoclastic.
Who writes to the archbishop of york, asking to put a stop to the witsun plays
Christopher Goodman and Robert Rogerson
what else did christopher Goodman write in 1572 that lists the offences in the Chester plays
Notes of absurdities in the Chester plays
when did the word puritan initially start beign used ?
c. 156, initiall used as an insult
fact that puritans loved reading and writing shows what ?
that they were most likely to be middle class educated people
what did puritans refer to themselves as ?
‘the godly’ ‘true gospellers’ ‘the elect’
what kind of a movment was puritanism
it was never seen as an independent movment, instead it was reactionary, it difined itself against what it did not like
how did christopher hill describe the term puritan
dragon in the path of every student of this period
how does kenneth parker describe uritanism ?
Puritanism was above all else a biblical movement
how does leyland Ryken describe puritan
‘Puritans had to be self-disciplined. The motivation behind this practical faith was the fundamental devotional quality in the Christian life: communion with god’
why is the term Puritan seen as a difficult term ?
because sliding scale of people with diffrent opinions, not ingherently diffrent from protestants but have slightly more intense beliefs
1) puritans didnt like the term themselves
2) movment never really existed as independednt freestanding movment
puritans and their notion of comunal spirit
- no activity should distract from god
- many innocent activities had the potential to become corrupted
- association with catholic was condemned
- like group puritan activities eg. conversation and group readings
puritan paradox ??
that puritans loved sermons .. loved to hear them being read and preached, believed that actually a connection to god . would feel very short changed if preacher just red from the book of homolies
puritans and tunes ?
no music, apart from psalms sung slowley as metric hymsns
puritans and the jive
NO NO NO NO .. the hate this shit, similar to how much they hate the theatre… one contemporary even suggested that the act of dancing was actually causing the dancer to break all 10 of the comandments
who wrote the essential reading text on the ‘Puritan Ethos’
CHRISTOPHER DURSTON AND JACQUELINE EALES
what d C.D and J.E. suggest puritans were in the forst 30 years of elizabeths reign
hose most commonly involved in the political campaign being waged in the pulpit, press and parliament to bring about further reformation
name three puritan radicals at forfront of calls form reform
thomas cartwright
walter travers
John Field
how did John Gee a 17c. comentator describe the puritan lifestyle
as ‘a lifestyle distinguished by prayer’