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  2. Puritans - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Fuller, in his Church History, dates the first use of the word to 1564. Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and precisian with a sense similar to the modern stickler. [7] Puritans, then, were distinguished for being "more intensely protestant than their protestant neighbors or even the Church of England". [8]

  3. History of the Puritans in North America - Wikipedia

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    A small minority of Puritans were "separating Puritans" who advocated for local, doctrinally similar, church congregations but no state established church. The Pilgrims, unlike most of New England's puritans, were a Separatist group, and they established the Plymouth Colony in 1620. Puritans went chiefly to New England, but small numbers went ...

  4. Women in 17th-century New England - Wikipedia

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    Child mortality rates were high, and women faced the constant risk of death in childbirth. Despite these challenges, women also played an essential role in maintaining the household and community. They were responsible for tasks such as cooking, cleaning, sewing, and gardening. Women's labor was crucial for the survival and well-being of the ...

  5. Women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    References on the history of women in the early Christian Church. Brock, Sebastian and Harvey, Susan, trans. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, updated edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

  6. History of the Puritans - Wikipedia

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    The Puritan's main purpose was to purify the Church of England and to make England a more Christian country. History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I, 1558–1603; History of the Puritans under James I, 1603–1625; History of the Puritans under Charles I, 1625–1649; History of the Puritans from 1649; History of the Puritans in North America

  7. Women in Church history - Wikipedia

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    Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...

  8. 75 Women Empowerment Quotes from the Most Inspirational ... - AOL

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    Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.

  9. History of the Puritans under King James I - Wikipedia

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    Richard Rogers (1550–1618) fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge known for his strong Biblical preaching, whose "Seven Treatises" on the Christian Life were foundational to the Puritan movement. John Knewstub (1544–1624) preacher and scholar who was a participant in the Hampton Court Conference of 1604 representing the Puritan side. He was ...