By Robert Tracy McKenzie
During the appealing tale of the start of this quintessentially American vacation, veteran historian Tracy McKenzie is helping us to raised comprehend the story of America's origins--and for Christians, to understand the importance of this tale and people love it. McKenzie avoids either idolizing and demonizing the Pilgrims, and calls us to like and research from our wrong but interesting forebears. --from publisher Read more...
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In truth, such ambiguity is almost the defining feature of Winslow’s account, and if we wanted to, we could compile a whole list of details commonly taken for granted about the occasion that we could never prove from his brief description. To start with a trivial example, why are we so sure that turkey was on the menu? ” Admittedly, Bradford mentioned that wild turkeys were plentiful around Plymouth that autumn, but he also observed that various kinds of waterfowl were numerous as well, so that it is just as conceivable that the Pilgrims dined on ducks or geese—or even swans!
Second, while Calvin agreed with Luther that the Bible alone was to be the Christian’s ultimate authority, he defined what that meant more severely. In Luther’s estimation, any church practice was biblical if it was either unequivocally endorsed in Scripture or logically consistent with scriptural principles. Following Zwingli, Calvin was uncomfortable with this generous definition and tended to limit church practice to what Scripture explicitly authorized. Thus private confession remained in Lutheran churches but disappeared from Calvinist ones.
19 One Hundred Fifteen Words As it turns out, the only surviving firsthand account of a celebration in 1621 comes from the pen of Edward Winslow, Bradford’s younger assistant. Upon the arrival of a ship from England in November 1621, Winslow crafted a cover letter to accompany the reports to be sent back to the London merchants who were financing the Pilgrims’ venture. In his letter—the main purpose of which was to convince the Looking Underneath the House 35 investors that they weren’t throwing their money away—Winslow described the houses the Pilgrims had built, listed the crops they had planted and emphasized the success they had been blessed with.