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  2. New England Puritan culture and recreation - Wikipedia

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    The Puritan culture of the New England colonies of the seventeenth century was influenced by Calvinist theology, which believed in a "just, almighty God," [1] and a lifestyle of pious, consecrated actions. The Puritans participated in their own forms of recreational activity, including visual arts, literature, and music.

  3. Conversion narrative - Wikipedia

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    Broadly speaking, a conversion narrative is a narrative that relates the operation of conversion, usually religious. As a specific aspect of American literary and religious history, the conversion narrative was an important facet of Puritan sacred and secular society in New England during a period stretching roughly from 1630 to the end of the First Great Awakening.

  4. Puritan casuistry - Wikipedia

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    Puritan casuistry is a genre of British religious literature, in the general area of moral theology, and recognised as founded about 1600. The work A Case of Conscience (1592) of William Perkins is considered foundational for the genre. So-called "case divinity" has been described as fundamental to Puritan culture. [1]

  5. Definitions of Puritanism - Wikipedia

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    This view gained some support from King James I of England. [23] Thomas Fuller reported that De Dominis used "Puritan" to mean "anti-Arminian". [24] William Laud took up the topic of doctrinal Puritanism in 1624. [25] Hill's book Society and Puritanism is directed towards the concerns of doctrinal Puritans, and their lay appeal. [26]

  6. Book of Common Prayer (1662) - Wikipedia

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    Puritans rejected substantial portions of the Book of Common Prayer, particularly elements retained from pre-Reformation usage.Further escalating the tension between Puritans and other factions in the Church of England were efforts, such as those by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, to require the usage of certain vestments such as the surplice and cope.

  7. History of the Puritans under King Charles I - Wikipedia

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    Under Charles I, the Puritans became a political force as well as a religious tendency in the country. Opponents of the royal prerogative became allies of Puritan reformers, who saw the Church of England moving in a direction opposite to what they wanted, and objected to increased Catholic influence both at Court and (as they saw it) within the Church.

  8. Restoration literature - Wikipedia

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    In general, scholars use the term "Restoration" to denote the literature that began and flourished under Charles II, whether that literature was the laudatory ode that gained a new life with restored aristocracy, the eschatological literature that showed an increasing despair among Puritans, or the literature of rapid communication and trade ...

  9. 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