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Founded by the Heritage Reformed Congregations in 1995, Puritan Reformed is a graduate school that offers both masters' and doctoral degrees. All of its faculty subscribe to the Three Forms of Unity and the Westminster Standards. Since 1998, the Free Reformed Churches of North America (FRCNA) has sent its theological students to Puritan ...
Joel Robert Beeke (born December 9, 1952) is an American Reformed theologian who is a pastor in the Heritage Reformed Congregations and the chancellor of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. Under the oversight of the Heritage Reformed Congregations, Beeke helped found Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in 1995, where he served as ...
The English Puritan movement in the reign of Elizabeth and beyond sought to further the work of reforming the Church of England, eradicate the influence of Roman Catholicism in the land, as well as promote the national interest of the English crown and the English people under a united Protestant confession that was in strict conformity to the ...
As of October 2014, Barrett was Academic Dean and Professor of Old Testament at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and a minister in the Free Presbyterian Church of North America. [2] [third-party source needed] [nb 3] As of this date, [when?] Barrett continued as Academic Dean and Professor of Old Testament at Puritan Reformed Theological ...
The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church, during the Reformation.
Mid-America Reformed Seminary; Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; New Brunswick Theological Seminary; Northwest Theological Seminary; Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; Protestant Reformed Theological School; Princeton Theological Seminary; Reformed Episcopal Seminary; Reformed Presbyterian Theological ...
In the 17th century, the word Puritan was a term applied not to just one group but to many. Historians still debate a precise definition of Puritanism. [6] Originally, Puritan was a pejorative term characterizing certain Protestant groups as extremist. Thomas Fuller, in his Church History, dates the first use of the word to 1564.
Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious community in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters.