Humanities Second Year Unit 2: CALVIN Lecture 4 Prof. Denise Askin

Calvin in America: A Literary Perspective

I. Introduction

A. Puritans in England

B. America as laboratory.

C. Visual Images of the Congregational Meetinghouse: the Puritan Aesthetic

II. The WORD

A. Printing Press

B. Bay Psalm Book

C. The Sermon ("Plain" Style and "Efficacious" Word)

III. Sola Scriptura and the Puritan Imagination

A. Typology: John Winthrop A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

1. Covenant and History

2. Myth-making: The Power of Images

B. Typological Imagination in Daily Events

IV. The Language of Conversion

A. Conversion: the Individual's Experience

B. Genre of the Spiritual Narrative

C. Jonathan Edwards: Personal Narrative (1739)

D. The Great Awakening

E. Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)

V. An Imaginative Response to Puritanism: Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown (1835)

Key Names and Terms:

John Winthrop (1588-1649) Plain Style

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) Typology

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Type and Anti-type

Great Migration 1630's Teleology-
Puritan Protectorate (1642-60) England Covenant

Great Awakening 1730's and 40's Conversion

Efficacious word Special Providence