| Purtian Ethic | Quaker Ethic
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| A. Religious Patterns
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| 1. Old Testament
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| a. Ten Commandments
| | b. Law (head and reason)
| | c. Sacred authority: Bible
| | d. Danger: legalizm and rationalism
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| 1. New Testament
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| a. Sermon on the Mount
| | b. Gospel (love and feeling)
| | c. Sacred authority: Inner Light
| | d. Danger: antinomian mysticism
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| 2. God Transcendent
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| a. Historical Jesus
| | b. Servants of God (works)
| | c. Glorify God in the world
| | d. Duty and honor(anxiety-compulsion)
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| 2. God Immanent
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| a. Eternal Christ
| | b. Friends of God (grace)
| | c. Union with God (mysticism)
| | d. Conscience and honesty (peace of mind)
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| 3. Predestination and Election
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| a. Educated clergy
| | b. Learning and erudition
| | c. Literature: sermon, history and theology
| | d. Danger: arrogance of elect
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| 3. God in Every Person
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| a. Charismatic laymen
| | b. Literacy and education
| | c. Literature: personal journal
| | d. Danger: putocracy ("Weighty Friends")
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| 4. Particular Calling
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| a. Professional pride
| | b. Worldly asceticism (lay monk transforms the world)
| | c. Institutional philanthropy
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| 4. General Calling
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| a Anti-professional
| | b.Worldly asceticism (lay monk withdraws from the world)
| | c. Spontaneous charity
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| 5. Sources of Evil: Sinful Man
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| a. Optimistic about institutions, pessimistic about man
| | b. War: crusade against evil enemy
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| 5. Sources of Evil: The World
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| a. Optomistic about man, pessimistic about institutions,
| | b. War: perfectionist pacifism
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| B. Cultural Consequences
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| 6. Hierarchical Communalism
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| a. Church ideal (dominate community)
| | b. Institution building (compromise)
| | c. Intolerant-responsibly
| | d. Public servant ideal (ideal lawyer: judge)
| | e. Ideal man: minister-magistrate
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| 6. Egalitarian Individualism
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| a. Sect ideal (withdraw to peers)
| | b. Anti-institutional (spontaneous perfectionism)
| | c. Tolerant-irresponsible
| | d. Private citizen ideal (ideal lawyer: advocate)
| | e. Ideal person: martyr-mystic
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| 7. Arstocratic-Patrician
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| a. Urban origin and values
| | b. Representative republic
| | c. Speaking aristocracy and silent democracy
| | d. Level up (opportunitarian)
| | e. Patriarchal
| | f. Vices: arrogance, pride, chauvinism, provincialism
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| 6. Democratic-Plutocratic
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| a. Rural origin (suburban values)
| | b. Direct democracy
| | c. Speaking democracy and silent plutocracy
| | d. Level down (egalitarian)
| | e. Sex equality (matriarchal)
| | f. Vices: smugness, snobbery, self-satisfaction
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| Ethnocentrism
| Xenophilia
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