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For the Puritans such an explicit teaching of Scripture was an “essential note of the church.” While salvation may have been essential to the Puritan’s faith, it was not everything. Puritan discipline was key to the visible church’s goal of edification: “an
The purpose of this Very Short Introduction is to present the puritans as they were, to provide a clear explanation of what they believed, how they worshipped, how they lived their everyday lives and interacted with their fellow believers and the broader world, and why the movement as such came to an end.
This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface.
the definition of puritanism. Whereas other religious movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Lutheranism, Catholicism, Genevan Calvinism, among others—became institutionalized so that there were official statements of faith and formal membership in churches, puritanism never achieved that
PURITANISM. ‘Puritan’ was originally a term of contempt, and ‘Puritanism’ has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England.
Attempts to define early-modern English ‘puritanism’ and to agree on a common usage for the noun and adjective ‘puritan’ have been going on for well over 400 years. Contemporaries set about the task almost as soon as the religious phenomenon...
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Puritan quest in fact gives rise to a debate whether such a notion as God's teleological suspension of the ethical constitutes a valid religious explanation of human experience.
