Title: John Winthrop, America’s Forgotten Founding Father
Author: Francis J. Bremer Publisher: Oxford University Press,
2003 If good intentions could save a person’s soul, then there
would be no doubt about John Winthrop’s soul. John Winthrop was
a man of vision. He sought to create a new land, pure from the
corruption found in the Church of England, but his desire to do
so came while he lived in England. A complex historical
character, Mr. Winthrop is quoted by presidents, by scholars,
and by laymen to support their ideology—whether or not Mr.
Winthrop would have agreed. In this book, we begin to grasp how
the state of England, Christianity within the country, and the
passion of life formed Mr. Winthrop’s own ideologies and
theology. I believe social pressures also formed much of Mr.
Winthrop’s theology, more so perhaps than the Bible itself. An
example of this is his own conclusion: “God Almighty in his most
holy and wise providence hath so disposed of the condition of
mankind, as in all times some must be