Unit 2 Flashcards
What was the essential principle for the Bay Song Book?
To translate literally without embellishment
First book written in this country
The Bay Psalm Book
After leaving the Bay Colony, Williams started a colony in what is now
Rhode Island
Roger Williams’ writings called “The Curious Pagan” contrasts what on a symbolic level?
Cultivated manners and natural kindness
Williams’s belief about what principle has been influential among religious and political conservatives since his day?
Separation of church and state
What was the purpose of Williams’s book “A Key into the Language of America”?
To introduce the Narragansett Indian language to Americans
Bradstreet was the first colonist to attain what achievement?
Writing a sizable body of verse
What does Bradstreet accomplish more effectively than any other Puritan writer?
Recording the touchingly human drama of Puritan life
Based on subject matter, into what two categories can Bradstreet’s poems be divided?
Religious and domestic
In “Contemplations” the appreciation of the beauty of nature leads to
An appreciation of God’s majesty
In “Upon the Burning of Our House,” what reason does Bradstreet cite for determining that God is just?
All her goods belong to God
Which poetic device is featured in the concluding lines of “To My Dear and Loving Husband”?
Paradox
According to “Meditations Divine and Moral” authority without wisdom is like
An ax without an edge
What was the purpose of “Preparatory Meditations”?
The purpose of them was to prepare Taylor spiritually for preaching the sermon before communion
According to 1.1, God’s love overflows what?
Hell
In “The Experience” what does Taylor claim?
He claims his status with God is better than that of angels.
In the line “Flesh of my Flesh” the relationship Taylor describes with scriptural allusions is
The one between God and himself
1.6 why does Taylor want God to be his spectacles?
So Taylor can examine himself from God’s perspective to see if he indeed has God’s image.
What is conceit?
A striking, elaborate, comparison carried out in considerable detail
The entire poem is a prayer
“Huswifery”
What does the line “His Glorious Handy Work not made by hands” illustrates what?
Irony
What is the main theme of Jonathan Edwards’s writings?
That religious knowledge must be in the heart not just in the head
At what age did Edwards become a believer?
18
Which revival did Edwards contribute to?
The Great Awakening
What year did Edwards die and what was the cause?
1758; smallpox
Why were so many hearing “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” unconverted?
Because of the Halfway Covenant. There was relaxed membership possible to join and they had not had a true religious salvation experience.
Bible verse for “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Deuteronomy 32:35 “Their foot shall slide in due time ….”
