Religious covenant: interpretation of faith in the utilitarian rationality-alliance between divine right and human right

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10.2991/saeme-17.2017.39How to use a DOI?

Keywords

religious covenant; federal theology; puritans; reason and logic.

Abstract

Religious covenant of New England, availing secular reason and logic, made a cultural reformation of the traditional theology, and framed the ideological foundation of the federal theology by systemizing the belief of "original sin", "covenant of works", "covenant of redemption", and "covenant of grace". By indulging in grace form God, religious covenant suspended the God's supreme power, personified and secularized divinity; meanwhile, it sanctified secular reason, logic and consciousness of self-determination. Essentially, religious covenant coalesced divine and secular rights, redefined the cultural and spiritual identity of the New Englanders. Fabricated in the historical and social settings of commercialization, religious covenant supplied a subverted reinterpretation of traditional religion thought, and articulated the acclamations for reason and logic and the commercial principles of laisser-faire and fair-play in the early capitalist society.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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