"J""ohn Winthrop "(1588-1649) was the first governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally considered the principal
architect of early New England society. He led the colonists
through the initial struggles to survive in a new world, shaped the
political organizations that gave the colonists the right to govern
themselves through elected governors and representatives, worked to
mediate between those who advanced radical religious and political
ideas on the one hand and those who sought a very narrowly defined
orthodoxy, and contributed to the development of a system of
education which insured the preservation of the founders' heritage.
The details of this brief biography is drawn from the author's
larger, prize-winning study, "John Winthrop: America's Forgotten
Founding Father "(Oxford University Press, 2003), though modified
in minor ways by his ongoing research. To render it more accessible
to an undergraduate audience, Bremer avoids in-depth discussion of
theology and other specialized topics and focus instead on trying
to provide students with an appreciation of how Winthrop's world
differed from theirs, but how at the same time he dealt with issues
that continue to resonate in our own society. In placing his life
in the context of the times, Bremer discusses Winthrop's family
life and the challenges of life faced by men, women, and children
in the seventeenth century. The key themes that are integrated into
the biographical narrative are how Winthrop's religion was shaped
by the times and in turn how it influenced his family life and the
moral outlook that he brought to his political career; his
understanding of society as a community in which individuals had to
subordinate their individual goals to the advancement of the common
good; and his struggle to define where the line needed to be drawn
between new or different ideas that enriched religious and
political growth, and those that threatened the stability of a
society.
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