Exam Review
Leaders
Areas of
Influence
Beliefs
Congregational Church
(Puritans)
-John Winthrop
NAME:
Lesson 3: Religious Development, 1619-1740
Anglican Church
Society of Friends
Catholic Church
(Quakers)
-King and Queen of England -William Penn
-Pope
-bishops of the church
-George Fox
-Bishops
Presbyterian Church
-William Tennent
-in NE
-Massachusetts
especially
-Virginia
-Maryland
-Pennsylvania
-scattered in NE
-scattered in NJ
-primarily in MD
-Lord Baltimore
-frontier and backcountry
-PA and NJ scattered
-separatist and nonseparatists
-believed in total
depravity
-every person sinful
-atonement for some
people
-perseverance of saints
-unconditional authority of
the church
-followed the Book of
Common Prayer
-varies b/t Protestant and
Catholic doctrine
-foundations: 39 articles,
Bible, Book of Common
Prayer
-pacifist
-simplicity in living
-every person has inherit
worth
-don’t have to earn
salvation
-many don’t regard Bible
as only source of truth
-all aspects of life as
sacramental
-few believed in hell
-every person has the
“inner light”
-refused to take oaths
-tolerant of other
religions
-often clashed PURITANS
-Penn considered
Pennsylvania to be a
refuge: a “holy
experiment”
-hierarchy of church
-baptism of infants: other
holy sacraments
-church interpreted Bible
-priest was pathway to God
-NO DIVORCE
-salvation is EARNED via good
works
-supreme authority is the
Bible
-justification by grace
through faith
-responsibility of believers
to share gospel
-sovereignty of God
throughout the universe
-tolerant of other religions
-Maryland: ACT FOR
RELIGIOUS TOLERATION: only
relatively tolerant
-in general, Catholics were
not so popular amongst the
colonists
-Old Lights vs. New Lights:
split in the denomination
-primarily Scotch-Irish
membership
-by 1740, 3rd largest
denomination in the
Comment -Roger Williams and
Ann Hutchison: rebels
-“city on a hill”
-largest religious
denomination in NE
until about 1740
-one of the main branches
of Protestantism that
emerged during the
Reformation
-what the English Puritans
were rebelling against
-mutual watchfulness
-Salem Witch trials
-halfway covenant
-member of Anglican Church
was important status
symbol for aristocratic,
wealthy individuals in VA
and MA
colonies