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Reformed Christianity portal; Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary is a Reformed seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [3] [4] Joel R. Beeke was the president of Puritan Reformed from 1995 to 2023 and currently serves as the chancellor, while Adriaan C. Neele serves as the president and Gerald M. Bilkes as the vice president.
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.
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.
Puritans, Calvinism, Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology, Nadere Reformatie, Experiential Piety, Systematic Theology, Historical Theology, Homiletics, Assurance (theology), Christian Living Joel Robert Beeke (born December 9, 1952) is an American Reformed theologian who is a pastor in the Heritage Reformed Congregations and the chancellor ...
It has promoted Puritan theology [4] and helped resurrect the ideas of Jonathan Edwards. [3] [12] [13] Alister McGrath refers to the "revival in Puritan spirituality that had been borne aloft on the wings of Banner of Truth's inexpensive paperbacks." [14] The Banner of Truth Trust's logo depicts George Whitefield preaching. [15]
The English Puritan movement that began in the reign of Elizabeth, and grew in strength and influence in England during the reign of King James 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 ...
The major religious leader of what was then the frontier, he was known as the "Puritan Pope of the Connecticut River valley" [1] and was concerned with the lives (and the souls) of second-generation Puritans. The well-known theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was his grandson, the son of Solomon's daughter, Esther Stoddard Edwards.
The covenant sealed: the development of Puritan sacramental theology in old and New England, 1570-1720 (1970) E. Brooks Holifield (born January 5, 1942) is an American religious historian and the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of American Church History at Emory University 's Candler School of Theology , where he taught until his ...