Activities of the Puritan Missionary John Eliot among the Indians of New England Cover Image

Działalność purytańskiego misjonarza Johna Eliota wśród Indian Nowej Anglii
Activities of the Puritan Missionary John Eliot among the Indians of New England

Author(s): Piotr Stawiński
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Verbinum
Keywords: puritanism; New England; missions; Jesuits; John Eliot; Gabriel Druillettes

Summary/Abstract: The present article is dedicated to Christian missionary activities among the Indians of North America in the seventeenth century. The starting point for this consideration is – poorly exposed in the literature, and very interesting in terms of inter-profession rivalry – the event of meeting on Christmas Eve 1650 in Roxbury (New England) of the French Jesuit Father Gabriel Druillettes and the Puritan preacher John Eliot. They were both considered as the flagship of Catholic and Protestant missionary activity. The subject of a detailed description is J. Eliot’s activity who was called “the apostle of Indian.” The motivations, the programme of activities, methods, and results of J. Eliot’s activity – were presented against the Puritan spirituality and confronted with the action of the Catholic rivals. Mainly, however, attention has been focused on preaching, translating and organizational level of Eliot’s activities as well as on the evaluation of the results in the context of the so-called King Philip’s War (1675-1676).

  • Issue Year: 134/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 123-133
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish