Jan. 15--America as "Mission": The "City on a Hill"

1. Two consequences of "modernization"
   1. The Rise of the Individual
      1. "Masterless men"
      2. The Entrepreneurial Spirit
   2. New Views of Society
      1. The Old View--The Social Order as Divinely Ordained
      2. The New View--Society as a Human Creation
2. The Puritan "Utopia"
   1. Background--England and the Reformation
      1. A Seedbed of Religious Thought
      2. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
   2. Two Responses to Crisis
      1. Stand and Fight--The English Civil War
      2. Exodus--The New England Project
3. Another Literary Genre--The Puritan Sermon
   1. A Statement of Purpose--Winthrop's "A Modell of Christian Charity"
   2. A Call to Faithfulness--The Jeremiad