By Amy DeRogatis
ISBN-10: 023112788X
ISBN-13: 9780231127882
ISBN-10: 0231127898
ISBN-13: 9780231127899
Ethical Geography strains the advance of an ethical foundation for American expansionism, as Protestant missionaries, utilizing biblical language and metaphors, imaginatively conjoined the cultivation of souls with the cultivation of land and made house sacred. whereas the political implications of the mapping of yank growth were a lot studied, this is often the 1st significant learn of the shut and intricate dating among mapping and missionizing at the American frontier. ethical Geography presents a clean method of realizing nineteenth-century Protestant domestic missions in Ohio's Western Reserve. by utilizing maps, letters, spiritual tracts, shuttle narratives, and geographical texts, Amy DeRogatis recovers the struggles of settlers, land surveyors, missionaries, and geographers as they sought to reconcile their hopes and expectancies for a Promised Land with the realities of lifestyles at the early American frontier.
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17 Still, while Mather asserted the prominent place of his forefathers in New England’s redemptive history, he also personally witnessed decline in church membership, theological compromises including the Dedham Half-Way Covenant (), and tragedies such as the Salem witch trials. In the eye of this theological and political storm, Mather’s ambitious but nonetheless contradictory work reaffirmed his Puritan belief in the chosenness of saints, the authority of Scripture, and New England’s central role in God’s redemptive plan for humanity.
Simply put, in the minds of the trustees Native Americans no longer resided within the borders. ”38 The society voiced its concern for the moral well-being of Native inhabitants by including them in the mission statement, but from this point on, it focused primarily on New England emigrants and the creation of a morally ordered community on the frontier. Significantly, the The Benevolent Design society portrayed Native Americans as living “on our borders,” rather than residing inside the Western Reserve.
The New Englanders who set out to plan, settle, and missionize the Western Reserve carried with them ambivalent feelings regarding Native inhabitants but clear objectives regarding the land. Connecticut missionaries struggled with the seemingly contradictory biblical imperatives of inward and outward spiritual focus that mirrored the seventeenth-century Puritan theological dilemma. The injunction in Joshua to cut down the forest and build a New Jerusalem inspired the Puritan colony, while the The Benevolent Design scriptural lamentations of Jeremiah and the Macedonian “Come over and help us” led a faithful few to rescue souls lost in the moral wilderness.
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