Word: puritanism
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...first person to be inaugurated in a skirt.” And the huge black robe? “I don’t know whether it’s actually the same cloth that Larry wore, but it’s meant to emulate the garb of a Puritan minister... It’s completely unlike any other University president’s.” Those Puritans were always known for their keen fashion sense...
...Jesus was intimate with men and women,” a biblical scholar told his audience at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, a stone’s throw from the final resting places of Harvard’s early Puritan presidents. Peter Larose was hosting the first in a series of five discussions on the Bible and the ethics of sexuality at the church adjacent to Harvard Law School. “The ancients had no way of understanding human sexuality the way we understand it,” he told the audience of 10. “This...
...took the podium for her installation as Harvard’s 28th president on Friday afternoon.In a rainy and blustery Tercentenary Theatre, Faust turned to the past as she articulated a vision of Harvard’s future. Dressed in a robe modeled on the raiments of a Puritan minister, she invoked John Winthrop as she presented what she called a “compass to steer by,” a web of broadly conceived priorities for the University and higher education.“The essence of a university is that it is uniquely accountable to the past...
...Veritas” in Harvard’s shield was originally intended to invoke the absolutes of divine revelation, the unassailable verities of Puritan religion. We understand it quite differently now. Truth is an aspiration, not a possession. Yet in this we—and all universities defined by the spirit of debate and free inquiry—challenge and even threaten those who would embrace unquestioned certainties. We must commit ourselves to the uncomfortable position of doubt, to the humility of always believing there is more to know, more to teach, more to understand...
...women.” She penned it in her very first academic publication, a 1976 journal article that appeared in “American Quarterly,” while she was still in graduate school. The article argued that the emphasis on written documents in traditional historical scholarship led Puritan women to be remembered only by eulogistic sermons which obscured their individuality, and she criticized the tendency of historians to neglect those who are not the movers and shakers of history. “Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven?...