New England clergy

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New England clergy were the influential Puritan ministers and religious leaders who shaped the spiritual, social, and intellectual life of the early New England colonies.


Statements (50)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Protestant clergy
Puritan ministers
religious social group
activeInPeriod 17th century
18th century
associatedWith Connecticut Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
New Haven Colony
Plymouth Colony
Rhode Island (dissent and controversy)
country Colonial America
doctrine conversion experience
covenant theology
original sin
predestination
education Harvard College
Yale College
genderComposition predominantly male
influenced intellectual life of New England colonies
social life of New England colonies
spiritual life of New England colonies
influencedBy English Puritanism
Reformed theology
biblical literalism
involvedIn First Great Awakening
Half-Way Covenant controversy
Salem witch trials debate
language English
locatedIn New England
opposed religious toleration for dissenters
produced church covenants
histories and chronicles
sermons
theological treatises
religiousTradition Calvinism
Puritanism
required university-level education for ordination
role community leadership
education and schooling
moral discipline
pastoral care
political counsel
preaching
theological writing
shaped New England educational institutions
New England moral and legal codes
New England town governance norms
socialStatus elite
supported established Congregational churches
typicalChurchPolity Congregationalism

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Maria Cotton ("New England Puritan clergy")
New England Way ("New England Puritan clergy")
associatedWith
Increase Mather ("New England Congregational churches")
influenced
Magnalia Christi Americana
mainSubject
John Cotton ("Massachusetts Bay clergy")
memberOf
Stockbridge Indian mission ("New England missionary movement")
partOf

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