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Puritan family
Depiction of an English Puritan family, 16th century.
Puritanism
religion
- Key People:
- John Bunyan
- Jonathan Edwards
- William Laud
- John Foxe
- John Robinson
- Related Topics:
- Protestantism
- revivalism
- New England Theology
Puritanism, a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Puritans became noted in the 17th century for a spirit of moral and religious earnestness that informed their whole way of life, and they sought through church reform to make their lifestyle the pattern for the whole nation. Their efforts to transform the nation contributed both to civil war in England and to ...(100 of 1051 words)