AOD Blog #2 - Political Imagination

In history class, we learned about the English colonization in the northern part of America. Puritans founded New England, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1630. Therefore, they emigrated there from England because of the anti-puritan policies made by the Church of England and the king. Puritans were against their corrupt Catholic views of the Church and the King. The Church of England and the king were corrupt because they didn't follow God's grace or follow the significant meaning of God, like the bible, but they used people for indulgences (made people pay their way up to heaven). Puritans believed in being faithful to God and follow His law or instructions. Most Puritans decided to set out to America in which they imaged a purification of the Church of England.
This is related to political imagination because Puritans set out to America "to escape the turmoil and persecution of England and to build a new orderly, Puritan version of England" (107, The American Promise). Before the Puritans settled out to Massachusetts Bay, John Winthrop the governor of the colony reported his Arbella sermon to his fellow companions. He imaged the colony as the same governmental structure as England though to be shaped around with Puritanism. Puritans would enter the covenant of God, or close relationships with God, and work together as a community, as proportionate body "parts so contiguous to others as thereby they do mutually participate with each other, both in strength and infirmity" (The Northern Colonies presentation). Puritans wanted to restructure their life from the disfunctional England to Puritan influenced government.