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Winthrop envisioned an ideal Puritan community characterized by social structures that promoted unity. He believed God created different social classes to bring people together, and that community members should willingly give, lend, and forgive others according to their means. The most important unit was the "body of Christ" - the Church. Leaders later invoked Winthrop's "City on a Hill" metaphor to portray America as a beacon of ideals like justice, mercy, and humility before God.

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Winthrop envisioned an ideal Puritan community characterized by social structures that promoted unity. He believed God created different social classes to bring people together, and that community members should willingly give, lend, and forgive others according to their means. The most important unit was the "body of Christ" - the Church. Leaders later invoked Winthrop's "City on a Hill" metaphor to portray America as a beacon of ideals like justice, mercy, and humility before God.

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WINTHROP - A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY In his sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity," what social structures, image patterns,

values, and governing principles does Winthrop create/articulate to characterize the ideal community he envisions? Have those structures, patterns, values, and principles been incorporated into American culture and hold today or have they changed? God has created people in different social classes to knit us closer together as a society When giving, give out of your abundance if it is an ordinary time When lending, lend to someone what he needs, not what he requires IF someone has nothing to give you then forgive them Law of nature and the law of grace Rules of justice and mercy Mercy is extended as giving, lending and forgiving Importance of Christian love

For Winthrop, what seems to be the most important unit of society? Body of Christ/Church? Uses it to describe society, to analyze love, to impose rules and guidelines for behavior etc On page 157 of the text, the paragraph beginning with the sentence Thus stands the cause between God and us is generally referred to as the Arabella Covenant as is considered, like the Mayflower Compact, as a basic document articulating American beliefs and ideals how do the two documents compare? Is there a difference between the two or are they essentially the same? Covenant says if we obey the commandments, the order to love Him and serve Him according to the call He has given us, God will bless us, if not, we will revieve ruin and God will break our in wrath against us making us know the price of the breach of suck a covenant

Why did leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan choose to invoke John Winthrop's "City on a Hill" image in their late-twentieth-century speeches? In what ways has the "City on a Hill' image been used in more contemporary times?

to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with God knitting together as one man untiy the eyes of all people are upon us following God will lead to prosperity

What accounts for the fervor of Winthrop's reaction toward Anne Hutchinson and her doctrine of personal conscience? Why is he so against something that seems to be, at least on the surface, to be in keeping with the general religious beliefs/ideals of the colony? Her notions of the Holy Ghost dwelling in a person and that outward acts do not necessarily mean salvation would have eliminated the need for an organized church. Religious freedom threatened hierarchies Questioning the authority of church leaders, of which John Winthrop was one.

Why does Winthrop go to such great lengths to find evidence that Hutchinson is wrong and that she has lost favor with God? What are the implications of his actions? To stop the spread of something he saw as heresy

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