Explain how systems of hierarchy and assumptions about social status (status differences) inform and support Winthrop’s conception of a “Christian community” in Puritan New England.
The Communitarian Dream a) Explain how systems of hierarchy and assumptions about social status (status differences) inform and support Winthrop’s conception of a “Christian community” in Puritan New England. How do underlying systems of hierarchy effect his moral argument? In other words, is his moral argument still compelling or workable when hierarchy is accounted for? […]