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A 3 page research paper that examines how the Puritans' interpretation of the New Testament influence early American colonialism and the castigation of Native Americans as "other." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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rationalizing the subjugation of India by the British, but it is no less true that religion also provided the basis for colonialism by the British in North America.
The Puritan interpretation of the New Testament provided the basic rationalization for their entire colonizing endeavor. This perspective is exemplified by the exegesis of the New Testament provided by the
works of Puritan evangelist John Cotton. Cottons perspective on the Bible was based on the precept that the books of the Bible, despite their various dates of origin, formed
"one unified, intricately integrated text" (Davidson, 1982, p. 122). In other words, God is perceived to have had in mind every word and book, as it came to the Puritans,
before the first word of the Old Testament was revealed to Moses (Davidson, 1982). The intricate design of the Bible, in Cottons perception, led towards and found its culmination
in the New Testament and its account of the mission of Jesus Christ (Davidson, 1982). The second basic principle of Cottons exegesis was that the "history of the first Church
in the times of the Apostles was being re-enacted in his own time" (Davidson, 1982, p. 122). Just as the Apostles rejected the practices of the Jews, the
Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Testament could be revealed through their lives as "clearly
as Christs teachings had been to his followers" (Davidson, 1982, p. 122). As this suggests, the Puritan perspective on the New Testament drew parallels between the new colony and the
time of the first Church. The earliest English settlers saw themselves as creating a "godly community," which would provide an example to militant Protestants in Europe of a people
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