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SUMMARY:John Winthrop’s Modell of Christian Charity: A Thanksgiving reco
 llection - Peter Thompson (St Cross College)
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DESCRIPTION:This lecture will unpack the lay sermon delivered by John Wint
 hrop in 1630 as the first ships in the great Puritan migration from Englan
 d neared the shores of Massachusetts. The sermon is remembered most for it
 s peroration – “we shall be as a city upon a hill” – which still i
 nforms the American Thanksgiving holiday. The interest for a Pusey audienc
 e lies in how Winthrop defined Christian Charity and adapted this to the w
 ork of building a community in New England. Some aspects of the sermon sti
 ll resonate – “we must be knit together in this work as one man…we m
 ust uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness\, gentleness\, pat
 ience and liberality.” In other ways Winthrop’s acute analysis of fact
 ors that might lead Puritans away from second commandment duties is of its
  time and unfamiliar. The lecture\, and discussion following it\, will bra
 nch out from the sermon itself to look at how Winthrop’s vision played i
 tself out on the ground. A theme of the recollection is the peculiarity of
  the Puritans’ covenant theology and their interest in the then novel co
 ncept of a covenant of grace.\nSpeakers:\nPeter Thompson (St Cross College
 )
LOCATION:Pusey House
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/36fd4746-3cc2-4261-8c38-db818c5f52d7/
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