Transcript The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism Martin Luther

The Protestant Reformation
Produces Puritanism
• Martin Luther 1517
– Denounced the authority of the priests and popes
– Bible alone was the source of God's words
• John Calvin 1536
– Institutes of the Christian Religion  Calvinism
• King Henry VIII 1534
– Broke ties with the Roman Catholic Church
– Minority that wanted taking Catholicism out of England to occur
Puritans
Minority of Puritans  Separatists or
Pilgrims
faster 
•
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage
at Plymouth
• Pilgrim leaders drew up and signed the
Mayflower Compact
– A simple agreement to form a basic government
and to submit to the will of the majority
• Signed by 41 adult males
– It was the:
first attempt at a government in America
(signed by the
“gentlemen”)
• “Starving Time”
– In the Pilgrims' first winter of 1620-1621, only 44 of
the 102 survived
The Pilgrims End
Their Pilgrimage
at Plymouth
• Separatists in
Holland came to
America in search
for their religious
freedom
• Settled outside of
VA
– Settled in
Plymouth Bay in
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
• In 1629, Puritans (non-Separatist),
fearing for their faith and for
England's future, secured a royal
charter to form the Massachusetts
Bay Company  Massachusetts
Bay Colony
• During the Great Migration of the 1630s,
about 15-20,000 refugees left England
for New England
Great
(Puritan)
Migration
John Winthrop
“We shall be as a
city upon a hill”
• Governor of MBC
• (“Massachusetts Bible
Commonwealth”)
• Believed that the Puritans had
a covenant with God to build a
holy society in the New World
“City Upon a Hill”
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