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iconoclast
a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
2 types of Americans
individualist/idealist
conformist/materialist
Americans monomyth
the hero's journey - regeneration through violence
innate depravity/muffin stump
Theology. a depravity, or tendency to evil, held to be innate in humankind and transmitted from Adam to all humans in consequence of his sin. inclination to evil, inherent in human nature. - sin goggles
Predestination
the belief that what happens in human life has already been determined by some higher power
Errand into the Wilderness
Puritans sensed that their mission was to go to New England to establish pure Christian communities with the ultimate purpose of reforming English society and the Church of England. Also known as the "New England way"
Sola Fide
by faith alone
grade/ elect
The people that were predestined were called the "elect". This is because these people were elected by God to go to Heaven.
Covenant of Grace
The Christian idea that God's elect are granted salvation as a pure gift of grace. This doctrine holds that nothing people do can erase their sins or earn them a place in heaven.
Typology
The study of how the New Testament is foreshadowed in the Old Testament.
"City Upon a Hill" John Winthrop
A colony that would be a refuge for persecuted Puritans and an instrument for the creation of Zion in America. This colony would have many economic and political situations which led to the foundation for major elements in America's cultural and political development as an example of how godly people should live.
Age of Reason
A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
watchmaker
Deism's view of God
Deism
A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets.
Franklin's Thirteen Virtues
1. Temperance
2. Silence
3. Order
4. Resolution
5. Frugality
6. Industry
7. Sincerity
8. Justice
9. Moderation
10. Cleanliness
11. Tranquility
12. Chastity
13. Humility
American Renaissance
The writing of the period before the Civil War, beginning with Emerson and Thoreau and the Trancendentalist movement including Whitman, Hawthorne, and Melville. These writers are essentially Romantics of a distinctively American stripe.
cowboy
the cowboy hero of 1920s literature represented both a deviation from the traditional dime store novel hero's of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as well as an illustration of their influences
sexual renunciation
cowgirl defies traditional sexual traditions
Pragmatism
A philosophy which focuses only on the outcomes and effects of processes and situations.
Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences
Theory of Correspondence
Han Confucian way of understanding how every important sign in nature is a reflection of thing to come on politics, signs in heavens can indicate path of dynasty, everything understood through analogies
pastoral
A work of literature dealing with rural life - middle ground
what text is iconoclasm in?
"Course Thesis Quotations" - misc.
what text is 2 types of Americans in?
"The Quest for the National Character" - potter
what text is the American monomyth in?
"The Myth of America" - slotkin
what text does city upon a hill come from?
"A Model of Christian Charity" - winthrop
what text does typology come from?
"Personal Narrative" - edwards
what text does bible of creation come from?
"The Age of Reason" - paine
What text does franklins daily charts come from?
"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" - franklin
what text does cowboy-employee come from?
"The Las of the Mohicans" - cooper
what text does passive resistance come from?
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" - melville
what text does the sage of concord/translucent eyeball come from?
"Nature" - emerson
What text does machine in the garden/pastoral come from?
"Walden" - thoreau
what text does AFP come from?
"Civil Disobedience" - thoreau
God: all powerful
puritanism
Watch maker: detached
enlightenment
Oversoul: organizing force
transcendentalism
individual
puritanism
individual=society
enlightenment
individual>society
transcendentalist
afterlife
puritanism
present
enlightenment
eternity in the present
transcendentalist
preacher
puritanism
scientist
enlightenment
poet-priest , naturalist, scholar
transcendentalist
nature< civilization
puritanism
nature
enlightenment
nature>civilization
transcendentalist
fact could be made one with the ideal in the present
puritanism
ideal is achievable in the future
enlightenment
ideal is achievable, but only temporarily
transcendentalist
innately depraved
puritanism
perfectible
enlightenment
divine, but needs to be awaken
transcendentalist
faith applied to bible - typology
puritanism
reason applied to nature - analogy
enlightenment
Reason applied to nature - theory of correspondence
transcendentalist
