Three of the Literary Periods

Puritan

Life is full of numerous contradictions, and the basis of the Puritan religion is no exception. The Puritans accepted that they were God's selected persons, as mentioned in the Bible. They glimpsed themselves on a level overhead the average man, but in truth, their belief was full of inconsistencies. The Puritans accepted in certain thing renowned as the 'Doctrine of Elect,' hinted at in Romans 8:28-30, 9:6-24, and later at the Synod of Dort.. The doctrine contradicted the more widely held conviction of Pelagianism, the conviction that man could redeem himself through actions of benevolent society, piety, and by dwelling an unselfish life. It came to be one of the greatest theological discrepancies of all time. Evidently, the Puritan convictions were nearly solely contradictory.

Some of the Puritan convictions were both simple and believable. Others would seem outrageous today. Puritanism was founded on the values and beliefs of John Calvin, and one of the foremost ideals they concentrated on was the doctrine of predestination. Calvin accepted that the grace of God was the ticket into paradise and that his grace could not be earned. God's grace was bestowed upon a choose couple of despite of what they did to profit from it. This 'doctrine' asserted that God determines a mans' destiny, whether it be redemption or disapproval, despite of any worth or merit on the person's part. It could be compared to the flops of Communism in that no issue how hard a individual worked, how devout a individual was, how often a individual went to church, there was no way to get into paradise unless they were chosen.

The God worshipped by the Puritans was not a forgiving God, and decisively not a joyous God. The Puritans worry him and endeavoured zealously to make themselves worthy in his eyes. They insisted that they, as God's exceptional vote into office, had the obligation to conduct affairs carrying out his will according to the Bible. Though numerous of their beliefs seemed outrageous, the most heinous of all was the aforementioned 'Doctrine of Elect.'

        If this 'Doctrine of vote into office' assured the chosen a spot in paradise, then there was no cause for them to behave as pious, God-fearing Puritans. There was no pay after death for those who had been good and were not 'chosen.' The benchmark was the identical for the exceptional couple of who made their way onto God's list. They had no cause to be good persons, for there was not anything they could do to lose their location on the large list. For this cause, it did not issue what a person did in life, for his destiny was already chosen.

Transcendentalism

        Transcendentalism is the outlook that the basic reality of the cosmos lies after the knowledge got from the senses, a information that transcendentalists regard as the meagre appearance of things (Adventures 162). Transcendentalists accept as true the mind is where concepts are formed. The transcendentalist ideas of God, man, and the cosmos were not ...