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Thursday, September 2, 2010

A Model of Christian Charity (I know, not very creative)

Ok I'm not going to lie, I was completely confused by this prompt, and I'm not sure I understood very well but here is want I think it is saying. It almost seems that what John Winthrop is trying to say is that love should be complete and unconditional. Almost the type of love that holds a family together. The examples that he uses, with the mother's realtionship towards her child, the intense friendship between Jonathon and David (brothers?) in the bible, and the relationship of the two sisters, Ruth and Naomi, also in the bible, seemed to almost imply that in settings like these, the type of love that you need to show goes above everything else, and is the absolute priority. And that, Mr. Cook, is what I took from this.

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  1. Winthrop took a stand about the way the colonists were to behave toward each other. Remember that the society of the time was stratified, and those who were not as well off were not treated very well. Winthrop basically told his people that if they were rich or if they were called upon to lead, then they owed it to the people around them to behave with charity. He then spends most of the sermon explaining what that means when it comes to life in the colony. He refers to the colony as a 'city on a hill' that will serve as an example to the world of how Christians should live. His stance was much more radical for the time than we might realize given our lives today.

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