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- Sabbath or Shabbat (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, "rest"; Shabbos or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- usually referred to as the Royal Society, were Puritan (1660). In 1663, 62 percent of the members were Puritans. One of the founders, Robert Boyle, often ...41 KB (6,580 words) - 14:04, 7 May 2024
- (1615–1705) an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony, and Honor Treat, the daughter of Richard Treat (1584–1669 ...24 KB (3,501 words) - 22:00, 3 May 2023
- Gosson offers what is in essence a puritan attack on imaginative literature. What is at stake in Sidney’s argument is a defense of poetry’s ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- This is seen by some as a side effect of the Puritan belief in the importance of Bible reading. In Wales, the literacy rate rocketed during the ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- of anti-rationalist dogmatism among the Puritan divines, put forward what they conceived to be a set of rational grounds for Christianity. They ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- grandfathers were among the nonconformist (Puritan) clergy ejected by the Church ... of England, did not leave behind her Puritan austerities. As a consequence ...47 KB (7,298 words) - 14:06, 7 May 2024
- everyone being equal before God). It was also puritan or spartan, avoiding festivals, music, icons, liturgy. and even visual symbols, dedicating ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- theaters as a consequence of the iconoclasm of the Puritan revolution. ==Life== ===Early life=== Born the second of five children, and only boy ...24 KB (3,692 words) - 03:47, 24 November 2022
- In reaction to this a Puritan movement developed within the church which wanted to return to the ecclesial life of the early church. This wing ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- wife of Sir Nicholas, a member of the Reformed or Puritan Church, and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married William Cecil, 1st Baron ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- reaction to the morally stern period of the Puritan government. Sheridan also participated in Parliament for Stafford, Westminster, Ilchester ...24 KB (3,861 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- uses the dogma of the Bible, but also incorporates Puritan traditions and beliefs, and most modern-day conceptions of Satan and the Garden of Eden story ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- During the English Puritan period, Ba'al was either equated with Satan or considered his main lieutenant. While the Semitic high god Baal ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- analysis of his findings, Weber maintained that Puritan (and more widely, Protestant) religious ideas had had a major impact on the development of the ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- views on natural justice while listening to a Puritan mob jeering and attacking those punished in the stocks. Others have argued that he was influenced ...26 KB (4,114 words) - 22:45, 30 April 2023
- The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which reads, "Congress ...29 KB (4,563 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- One of the primary manifestations of this was the Puritan movement, which sought to "purify" the existing Church of England of its many residual ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- Weber-Merton Thesis, Merton suggested that the Puritan ethos was not indispensable, although it did provide major support at that time and place.Russel ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- with the naked human form he is most definitely un-Puritan in his sensibilities, though not out of step with the spirit of the Counter-Reformation which ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- 451 It may, however, also be a sign of Puritan sympathies, which some sources ... * The Puritan * The Second Maiden's Tragedy * Sir John Oldcastle ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- a result of the efforts of Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister, and his patron, Royal Governor John Wentworth. (Queen's College, now Rutgers University ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- Gould maintained, "I am something of a Puritan" with respect to any substances that would alter or dull his mental state—not drinking alcohol ...30 KB (4,344 words) - 04:42, 28 April 2023
- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, historically known as the French Calvinists. Calvinism, and ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- The fathers of New England; a chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths. (The Chronicles of America series, v. 6.) New Haven: Yale University Press. ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- title ironically derived from John Bunyan's Puritan allegory of redemption The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)—follows the career of fortune ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px|James I wore the insignia of the Order of the Garter for the ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- near present day Boston (consisting mainly of Puritan Christians, who had very different religious beliefs from the Pilgrims) celebrated Thanksgiving ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theaters in 1660 signaled a rebirth of English drama. What would emerge ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 19:57, 8 December 2022
- to 1760, its main revivalist Jonathan Edwards with Puritan heritage gave his postmillenarian message, encouraging people to take active responsibility ...33 KB (4,990 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2021
- *Conservative/puritan criticism went further, condemning Qutb's Islamist/reformist ideas—such as social justice as "western" ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- his father Charles I fought Parliamentary and Puritan forces in the English Civil War. The prince accompanied his father during the Battle of Edgehill ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom of belief and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. It is generally ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- A fourth-generation American whose Puritan ancestors arrived in Massachusetts in 1636, Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Connecticut is ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα , dráma), which is derived from "to do" ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- until the nineteenth century, where lingering Puritan tradition restricted the observance of many holidays. American almanacs of the late-eighteenth ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- Leiden when he was hired by a group of refugee Puritan dissenters from England to act as their adviser on military matters. Eugene A. Stratton ...41 KB (6,248 words) - 19:30, 26 October 2021
- founding. Born to a candlemaker in Puritan Boston, he became a wealthy ... #039;s sense of exceptionalism – the Puritan and biblical image of "a ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- School in the hopes that it would maintain the Puritan religious orthodoxy in a way that Harvard had not.[http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/ht ...40 KB (5,720 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
- though only a tiny percentage of Americans have Puritan ancestors. Another theory suggests that the exodus describes the historical expulsion ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- not a crime ... despite the best efforts of our puritan tribe to make it all three. Homosexuality is as natural as heterosexuality. Notice I use the ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- insights into symbolism, Transcendentalism and the Puritan sensibility, were a significant factor in the revival of the reputation of Herman Melville ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
- Oregon Monthly. In a small city steeped in "puritan moralism," she was the first to wear rouge on campus; she had multiple boyfriends, and ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- of this theological point of view was the Puritan-American preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). Edwards believed that indeterminism ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- preacher, Cornelis Trigland, a follower of the very puritan theologian Gisbertus Voetius, was chosen to daily instruct the prince in the state religion ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 2023
- They deliberately chose a fairly sober, puritan lifestyle. They favored a liberal economy and the abolition of old regulations, and advocated ...54 KB (8,542 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- them to break the harassing chains of Puritan tradition. George Sylvester Viereck, The Candle and the Flame (Legare Street Press, 2022 (original ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and is located to the ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Seeger called "enormously Christian, in the Puritan, Calvinist New England tradition,"David King Dunaway, How Can I Keep From Singing (Villard ...58 KB (8,480 words) - 21:18, 8 August 2023
- * Nazarbaev, Nursultan. Epicenter of Peace. Hollis, NH: Puritan Press, 2001. ISBN 1884186130 * Nazpary, Joma. Post-soviet Chaos: Violence and ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a state located off the ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
