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17th-century denominations in England ... have the label "Arminian" behind their names. A. Robert Abbot; Joseph Alleine ... Sumner Chilton, Puritan Village, The ...
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.
Puritanism, begun in England in the 17th century, was a radical Protestant movement to reform the Church of England. Puritan poets such as John Milton , Anne Bradstreet , Edward Taylor and John Dryden produced some of the best-known verse of their age.
17th-century English Puritan ministers (4 C, 42 P) Pages in category "17th-century English Puritans" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
In the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England.Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church of England who believed that the Church of England was insufficiently reformed, retaining too much of its Roman Catholic doctrinal roots, and who therefore opposed royal ecclesiastical policy.
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The history of the Puritans can be traced back to the first Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI, the formation of an identifiable Puritan movement in the 1560s and ends in a decline in the mid-18th century. The status of the Puritans as a religious group in England changed frequently as a result of both political shifts in their ...
[64] He appears on the pages of seventeenth century English Puritanism, an age characterized as "the world turned upside down." [65] He was a Puritan and yet was unwilling to surrender conscience to party positions on public policy. Thus, Milton's political thought, driven by competing convictions, a Reformed faith and a Humanist spirit, led to ...