Lit movement notes
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Puritan Times 1650-1750 Content: Errand into the wilderness Be a city upon a hill- belief in America being the ?promised land? and Americans being the ?chosen people? Christian utopia Literal truth substituted with potential symbolic lesson Outside the community is the devil?s playground- both literally (Indians, dense forests, wild animals) and figuratively (separation from the community, spirits and demons/witches inhabiting the unknown) Genre/Style: Sermons-both to present a new argument in the ongoing theological debates and a part of the political process -?Election Day Sermons? Diaries Personal narratives Jeremiads-scaring the congregation back into religious life Written in plain style Chronicles-describe the earthly in terms of the eternal