Finally landing on the shores of the Massachusetts bay (hence the name) in 1630, one year after King James I had granted them (under the name Massachusetts Bay Company) a land exploration charter (Celebrateboston.com 1). Like much of northern colonial society the members of the Mass. Bay colony elected to build their culture in accordance with the conformity of the Puritan religion, creating a virtual theocracy. While they did maintain some separation of church and state, the taxes they collected were used to fund the church. They also required all of the colony’s citizens to attend puritan church services (Shmoop 1).
The Puritanism began with they Plymouth colonist of 1620. They believed in the Church of England was corrupt and that true Christians must separate themselves from it, leading to their emigration to the Americas. Their values and ideas influenced the political, economic, and social developments of the American colonies. Their idea of a united and representative government is one of the important and basic elements of the U.S. government. They influenced the colonies socially with their emphasis on community and led to the desire for religious freedom.
In the colonies, a large number of English Catholics immigrated to Maryland and established large colonial plantations in order to avoid the persecution of Puritan enemies. The Maryland assembly passed the Maryland Toleration Act, In order to give religious freedom to all Christians. Under the Maryland Toleration Act anyone who rejected the belief in Jesus was sent to death. This resulted in most colonies permitting the practice of different religions. Colonies such as Massachusetts were the least tolerant; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were the most liberal colonies.
Maryland was founded in 1634. It was a place for Catholics to freely practice Catholicism. In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. Passed on September 21, 1649 by the assembly of the Maryland Colony, it was the first law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American Colonies. Although Maryland was an early pioneer of religious toleration in the English colonies, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, and Quakers was common in the early years.
Captain John Smith (January 9, 1580 - June, 1631) was an English adventurer and soldier, and one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement. Smith also led expeditions exploring Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast. Smith was one of 105 settlers who sailed from England on December 19, 1606, and landed in Virginia on April 26, 1607. When they reached North America, the group opened sealed instructions and found that Smith was chosen as one of the seven leaders of the new colony. This was controversial since Smith had been accused of mutiny on the voyage.
So he instead became a monk and theology teacher instead. Luther was afraid of God and Hell until he saw the "Justification by faith" in "The Book Of Romans." Martin Luther decided to write his own doctrine stating that the Bible should be the basis of a persons religion. In 1507, Martin Luther became officially ordained a Roman Catholic Priest. Luther was then
He went through great pains to prove that Catholics were in fact subject to Rome and that the Pope would only influence them in spiritual matters. Although Carroll was against ‘ecclesiastical democracy’, Carroll urged that “Bishops may be elected, at this distance from Rome, by a select body of clergy constituting as it were a cathedral chapter. Otherwise we shall never be viewed kindly by our government here, and discontent, even amongst our own clergy, will break out”(2)-Theocracy is a form of government in which a God or deity is recognize as the state’s supreme civil ruler, or in higher sense, a form of government, in which a state is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divine guided or is pursuant to the doctrine of a particular religion or religious group- An event occurred on April 30, 1789, that became of great benefit to Carroll after stressing over the future of American Catholics. In common with their fellow-citizens, the American Catholics hailed joy when George Washington was elected as first president. Bishop Carroll congratulated him on behalf of the Roman Catholics for his victory.
Exactly, why is freedom achieved only for Englishmen and not women or anyone else not of the European race? How is this considered freedom? Is this how the difference in development occurred? First off, in New England Calvinism (created by John Calvin) was the people’s fate already predetermined, causing control of the people, and some wanting to break away from the church. The biggest difference causing the Pilgrims versus the Puritans, was the Pilgrims wanted a complete separation from the Church of England, and the Puritans on the other hand.
We see an example of one of Luther’s critical writings in Document 8. In this Document we see Luther take a strong anti Catholic stance and even go so far as to condemn the Pope. Document 9 also serves as another example and shows Luther’s being critical of the Churches officials and the need for priests by clamming “every baptized Christian is a priest already.” This last point struck a major cord with the peasants in Europe. Luther was telling them they could gain their own salvation by studying the bible for themselves. No longer would they need to be dependent on the Church.
Thomas More takes the side of the church and follows the idea that God judges the consciences of all, and if one is against God, then that person could be considered evil. “More went to his death as he said on the scaffold, “the king’s good servant and God’s first” ( Lahr). More believes that following God is the only way to go even if it resulted to death. More decides to stay true to his own beliefs and his own conscience based off of what is morally right under the law of God. This shows that in the Renaissance times, evil was viewed by what beliefs that people had in God, and the conscience and beliefs of the King are considered evil under what God laid down as