| Term | Definition |
| Puritan | Absolute Sovereignty of God |
| Puritan | Deity knows from the beginning who will be saved. |
| Puritan | God directly intervenes in the world. |
| Puritan | Since Adams fall all men born in sin and deserve damnation |
| Puritan | a few saved, by Gods efforts, not own efforts |
| Puritan | evil is within men |
| Puritan | God is revealed in the bible |
| Enlightenment | God is benevolent |
| Enlightenment | God is revealed in nature, not the bible |
| Enlightenment | man is naturally altruistic, |
| Enlightenment | Men are equal. |
| Enlightenment | man is perfected by education |
| Enlightenment | Humanitarian efforts are the best way to serve god. |
| Enlightenment | Distrust of existing religious systems. |
| Enlightenment | the reaction of the other system. |
| Enlightenment | God is kind and nice, not a tyrant |
| Enlightenment | the age of reason |
| Enlightenment | scientific study |
| Enlightenment | god is helpful to just causes |
| Puritan | Plainness is simple, and gets you into heaven. |
| Puritan | the divine mission to plant a christian utopia in the wilderness |