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John Winthrop A Model Of Christian Charity

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Katherine Suarez
History 2104
Professor. Rasmussen
February 27, 2017
“A Model of Christian Charity”
The private and public decisions of States United States, are dominated and determined by two persistent key questions. In first place, how do we create and maintain a marriage harmonious relationship between religious values and ideals? Second, how do we preserve the freedom, which includes religious freedom. It seems that culture in the United States and in the West, more generally, separates religion and politics from Middle Eastern culture, who seem more likely to mix religion and politics. But this is damaging to military leaders at a time when religious norms increasingly define strategic interactions. The United States has been a fine …show more content…

It could be said that the first colonization in American era occurred in the early seventeenth century when John Winthrop and other Puritan leaders sailed in Bay to solidify the settlement that would become the colony of Massachusetts Bay. On board, Winthrop delivered a sermon entitled “A Model of Christian Charity” that presented a phrase that remains at the heart of American foreign policy. Winthrop implored those traveling to be “like a city on a hill”, by creating a society that would serve as an example to others around the world. The religious fervor of the first colonization was reinforced during the great awakening of beginning of the 18th century, which contributed to the freedom that joined the American Revolution. The revolution was a “conspiracy of reason and faith”. In which the spiritual yearnings of the Great Awaken for religious freedom with the ideals of the illustration of a government based on reason and rights. As commented by John Quincy Adams on the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence “It’s connected to an indissoluble bond, principles of civil government with the principles of Independence of …show more content…

One of these leaders was John Witherspoon, a minister Presbyterian and president of the University of Princeton, whose ideas concerning justification of the revolution influenced students like James Madison and Aaron Burr. In one of his most sermons Witherspoon noted that “there was not a single instance in history, where civil liberties they lost and religious freedom was preserved in its entirety”. Another influential minister, Jonathan Mayhew, defended the cause of freedom and resistance against tyranny in his sermons and writings. Thomas Jefferson copied one of Mayhew's most influential phrases, and made it his personal seal during the revolution: “The rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” He Standard “An Appeal to Heaven” was not, therefore, only a cry of religious freedom but rather a call to restore the right balance that exists between the limited power of man and the power unlimited of God. The founders were wary of intertwining the church with the state because using state power to propel church activities would be an undue invasion of

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