Puritan Discussion of Religin and Reason - Example Table
Religion & Reason: The Puritan Discussion in Eighteenth-Century Colonial New England
Complete the table below to help you parse the various positions of the Puritan thinkers. Several are done as examples.
|PURITAN THINKERS |STATEMENT from sermon or essay |POSSIBLE RESPONSE from another Puritan thinker |
|Rev. Cotton Mather |“Philosophy [i.e., science] is no Enemy but a mighty |Response from: |Perhaps, but man should not use his knowledge of |
| |and wondrous Incentive to Religion.” |Rev. Thomas |God’s natural laws to obstruct God’s will, as may|
| | |Prince |be the case with lightning rods. |
|Rev. Benjamin Colman |“God deals with us as rational Creatures: And if |Response from: | |
| |Sinners would but hearken to Reason they would | | |
| |repent.” | | |
|Rev. Andrew Eliot |“There is nothing in Christianity that is contrary to |Response from: | |
| |reason. God never did, He never can, authorize a | | |
| |religion opposite to it, because this would be to | | |
| |contradict himself.” | | |
|Rev. Samuel Langdon |“Reason is his [God’s] law given to man, indelibly |Response from: | |
| |imprinted on his mind . . .” | | |
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|Rev. James Allin |“ . . . to resolve all events into natural Causes is |Response from: | |
| |derogatory to the Honour of GOD, and the direct Course| | |
| |to banish all Religion out of the World” | | |
|Rev. Thomas Prince |“. . . what we call the Laws of Nature are only the |Response from: |True, but we must remember that God can and does |
| |usual Methods in which [God] is pleased to Work in the|Rev. Thomas Paine|act outside his own laws of nature ( |
| |World” | |“super”-naturally ( to send messages to man. |
|Prof. John Winthrop |“[Although earthquakes] may justly be regarded as the |Response from: |Earthquakes occur only as the result of man’s |
| |tokens of an incensed DEITY; yet it can by no means be|Rev. Cotton |sinfulness. They are warnings from God. While |
| |concluded from hence, that they are not of real and |Mather |they follow his laws of nature, they never |
| |standing advantage of the globe in general.” | |produce beneficial results in the natural world, |
| | | |only in the souls of men who repent. |
|Add statements from texts by Puritans and other Protestant thinkers in #6: | | |
|Science, and #7: Health, e.g.: | | |
|Rev. Increase Mather |On the morality of smallpox inoculation: “[People] not|Response from: | |
| |only may use the method of inoculation to save their | | |
| |lives, but they even ought to do it, if they can. They| | |
| |keep not in good terms with the Sixth Commandment if | | |
| |they do it not.” | | |
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