BJU US History Chapter 4 – Flashcards
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Term applied to English parliamentary laws passed early in Elizabeth's reign that required conformity to the Church of England and uniformity of church worship.
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"Elizabethan Settlement"
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Staunch protestants who agreed with the Anglican creed, but not the ceremonies and practices. They wanted to purify the church.
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Puritans
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Agreed doctrinally with the Puritans, but saw the church's ceremonies and structure "problems" as unimportant.
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Low-church Anglicans
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Believed that the church's practices, and notably the rule by bishops were divinely ordained.
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High-church Anglicans
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Believed the whole church was corrupt and wanted to have a separate, or different church. (Aka Pilgrims).
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Separatists
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An authority such as a monarch appoints bishops, who appoint lower officials to individual churches.
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Episcopal Polity
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Members of the congregation elect their ruling elders.
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Presbyterian Polity
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Each congregation elected its own officers and each church remained independent of other churches
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Congregational Polity
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What most Puritans in America eventually called themselves.
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Congregationalists
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Formula devised by Puritan ministers in 1662 to offer partial church membership to people who had not experienced conversion
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Half-Way Covenant
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Resulted from the outbreak of witchcraft accusations upon several young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts in 1692 -Killing at least 20 people.
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Salem Witch Trials
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Anglican missionary who helped found William and Mary College
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James Blair
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Promoted missionary efforts for the colonies
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Thomas Bray
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English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism
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Roger Williams
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Through persecution, succeeded in establishing churches throughout the colonies
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Baptists
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A Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660
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Quakers
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English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (Quakers 1624-1691)
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George Fox
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A member of a protestant church governed by presbyters (elders) and founded on the teachings of John Knox
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Presbyterians
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Father of American Presbyterianism
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Francis Makemie
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It came into the New World with the settling of New Amsterdam, but not in great numbers.
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Dutch Reformed
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French Protestants
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Huguenots
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Probably the most important of the Reformed bodies in colonial history, concentrated in one colony and preserved their identity
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German Reformed
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The religious community who followed Luther's teachings.
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Lutherans
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The father of American Lutheranism
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Henry Muhlenberg
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Founded by Dutch leader Menno Simmons became descendants of Anabaptists and emphasized pacifism.
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Mennonites
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More conservative branch of Mennonites who practice a stricter church discipline
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Amish
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Exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
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Pietism
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Persecuted followers of the teachings of preacher John Huss
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Moravians
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A summary of a denomination's doctrine framed in question-and-answer form.
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Catechism
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The first book published in America
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Bay Psalm Book
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A pastor in New England who learned the Algonquin Indians' language and translated the entire Bible for them.
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John Elliot
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Young missionary who gave his life to take the gospel to the Indians
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David Brainerd
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Built gnadenhutten a town of christian indians
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David Zeisberger
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A religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
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Great Awakening
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Dutch Reformed pastor who helped start the Great Awakening
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Theodore Frelinghuysen
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Chief Presbyterian revivalist in the middle colonies
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Gilbert Tennent
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The "New Lights" were new religious movements formed during the Great Awakening and broke away from the congregational church in New England.
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New Lights
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The "Old Lights" were the established congregational church.
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Old Lights
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American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)
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Jonathan Edwards
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Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights."
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George Whitefield
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Preacher for the southern colonies who fought for legal toleration of dissenters
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Samuel Davies
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Baptist; established Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Randolph County NC
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Shubal Stearns
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A preacher who built on the Great Awakening in the South. (An early proponent of the abolition of slavery).
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Samuel Doak
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1. The authority of the Bible alone 2. Justification by faith alone
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Puritan Beliefs (Extra)
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System of government inside a church.
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Church Polity (Extra)
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The Puritans declined in religious fervor after the original settlers had died
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Puritan Decline (Extra)
