Next Time: • Critical & Functional Literacies

• Puritan Typology

• Responses: Group 7

• Abstracts: Alex & Justin

• New England Primer – How would it make you feel?

• As a child?

• As a parent/teacher?

• Bay Psalm Book (hymnal)– Read Psalm 1 only– How would it make you feel?

• Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity” (sermon)

– How would it make you feel about him, as a leader?

• Winthrop’s “journal”– Apply Greenblatt’s “self-fashioning” to

determine “authorities” & “aliens”

Dates:

• 1607 — Jamestown (Smith)

• 1620 — Plymouth Plantation (Bradford)

• 1630 — Massachusetts Bay Colony (Winthrop)

Puritan & Separatist Theology & Reading

• Depravity (next slide)

• typology

• iconoclasm

• rituals

Apply to

Bradford &

Morton

• T otal depravity

• U nconditional election

• L imited atonement

• I rresistible grace

• P erseverance of the Saints

Apply to Bradford & Morton

Puritan & Separatist Theology & Reading

• Depravity (next slide)

• typology

• iconoclasm

• rituals

Apply to

Bradford &

Morton

The New England Primer

- Imagine the text’s impact on you as a child and as an adult

The New England Primer

Images and Rituals: The Bay Psalm Book

• Catholicism & icons — “reading” unwritten images, such as stained glass & statues

• Puritans & iconoclasm — replacing “physical” icons with “written” icons, such as the Bible, the Psalms, the Primer, other religious texts

Reading People

• Self?

• Others?

• Outward signs, bodily rituals, are key

• Unconditional election &

• Perseverance of the Saints

John Winthrop

Three selections, three genres, three different views of the man

Modell of Christian Charity (1630)

Form

• sermon• Appeals to reason by structure of argument &

scripture citations• Appeals to reason & emotion through imagery &

scripture citations

John Winthrop

Three selections, three genres, three different views of the man

Modell of Christian Charity (1630)∙ content

- opening: economic differences

- middle: love, moral and Christian

- end: New England as “city on a hill”

Christian Experience (1637)

• content

- role playing through rhetoric

- works and grace

- “marriage” to the “word”

• form

- commonplaces of auto/biography with a spiritual slant

Authorities & Aliens: the Journal

• form

• structure by the day rather than retrospectively narrative history

• public vs. private writings

• content- reading signs (mouse kills snake)

- Williams (1633), three points of admonishment

- Hutchinson (1636), indwelling spirit

Journal, continued

• content

- authority vs. freedom

- select magistrates you agree with; sympathize with their weaknesses

Next Time• Group 1 Responses

• Abstracts?

• Poetry: Taylor & Bradstreet

• Where do you see images of depravity?

• Where do you see self-assertion?

• How do you see gender-associated images used?

• Bradstreet– Prologue– Upon the Burning– To Her Husband– Before the Birth

• Taylor– Huswifery – Upon Wedlock & Death of Children– Meditation 26.– A Fig for Thee, O Death