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In this sermon, he declared that the Puritan colonists emigrating to ... Winthrop was extremely religious and subscribed fervently to the Puritan ...

Through his relationship with the Puritan leader, John Robinson Smyth ... December 4, 2007. With John Robinson, the Puritan pastor whose congregation ...

she eloquently expressed the concerns of a Puritan wife and mother, giving ... England. She was the daughter of Puritan leader Thomas Dudley and ...

Anne Marbury Hutchinson (July 17, 1591 - August 20, 1643) was a leading religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership ...

of the Westminster Assembly, in which 121 Puritan clergymen participated, ... “scholastic Calvinism”), influenced by Puritan and covenant theology. ...

fiction, while Hawthorne brooded over the Puritan experience in his novels ... Letter, set in a seventeenth-century Puritan town, Hester Pryme is forced ...

it was "an unseparated church"—Puritan yet still aligned with the ... this group was in trouble with the Puritan authorities. He advised ...

children born to Erasmus and Mary Dryden, Puritan landowning gentry who supported ... his childhood. The Master of Trinity was a Puritan preacher by the name of ...

Helwys' home became a haven for early puritan dissenters within the Church ... to tolerate any significant degree of puritan independence. In 1607, the ...

===A puritan sect=== [[Image:Byzantinischer Mosaizist um 1000 002.jpg ... of Tertullian, who had been a type of puritan himself and had joined the ...

to refer to various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the seventeenth ... quot;blue law" was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has ...

conflict with Walter Travers, a leading Puritan and Assistant (Reader) at ... had been Roman Catholics while on earth. A Puritan clergyman criticized this ...

of Elizabeth's reign went toward the puritan, which discouraged the liturgical polyphony. Tallis wrote nine psalm chant tunes in parts for ...

===Puritan roots=== were embodied by the Protestantism of Puritan settlers of New England ...

was a particularly contentious time. The Puritan revolution had begun with ... became a place in which the anti-thesis to puritan values became manifest. ...

, was a socially and politically influential Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Mather descended from colonial New England's ...

of his fiction, while Hawthorne brooded over the Puritan experience in his novels and short stories. The direct descendant of John Hawthorne, a presiding ...

up preaching. He is identified with the Puritan tradition. Those not episcopally ... In theology, Bunyan was a Puritan, but contrary to stereotypes, there ...

charges of Popery leveled against him by the Puritan element in the Church. In fact, he rejected the concept of the primacy of Rome, arguing that bishops ...

a recently founded college with a strong Puritan ethos. Cromwell left without ... in bars and compel them to sing hymns. A puritan, he disliked the ritual ...

of Charles I and the establishment of the Puritan-influenced English Commonwealth. ... unconventional stands in conflict with Puritan values. In "The Doctrine ...

the one hand, the narrow dogmatism of the Puritan divines, with their anti ... for judging the private revelations of Puritan theology and the proper ...

Ballroom dance refers to a set of learned partner dances, which are enjoyed socially and engaged in competitively around the globe. Any of the ...

Izaak Walton (August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683) was an English biographer, who is best known for The Compleat Angler, a classic guide to the ...

English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theaters in 1642, after the Puritan revolution ...

a medical examination and a review by Puritan clergy, the girls were judged ... of a different ethnicity than that of her Puritan neighbors. Many accounts ...

the second of four siblings. His father was a Puritan minister. In 1671, he entered Winchester School, where he studied Greek and Latin literature ...

Puritan ideology had the largest influence on English colonists in ... Following the Puritan ideology, the intellectuals of the American ...

"too Catholic" by those of Puritan leanings in the sixteenth century and Evangelicals in later periods, and "too Evangelical" ...

Bible. Thus he translated America's Puritan heritage, both it's ... Stoddard departed from the traditional Puritan dry discourses to reach ...

|[[Image:ACFlagUSA.gif|45px]] Puritan |2-0 |[[Image:ACFlagEngland.GIF ... Defender, Vigilant, Volunteer,, Mayflower, Puritan and America. ...

interpreted by everyday English Puritans. Puritan theology was based on the ... would be eternally damned or not. Thus, Puritan leaders began assuring members ...

Frances Ann Deveraux, her mother a descendant of Puritan Jonathan Edwards, and became assistant to Bishop Richard Channing Moore in Richmond, Virginia. ...

Duke of Northumberland. This was a prelude to the Puritan usurpations of the Stuart era, as the Dudleys were invested in the Pilgrims' American ...

William Ellery. He was also a descendant of the puritan poet Anne Bradstreet, whose progeny numbered among them many notable Americans. His father graduated ...

family was said to be descendant from early Puritan dissidents, Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson. Her father's ancestors were Scottish and became ...

a more religiously oriented form. When a Puritan parliament triumphed over ... htm Lords of Misrule: The Puritan War on Christmas 1642-60 ...

criticizing the monarchy, defending Puritan dissenters, and denouncing censorship. He is sometimes known as the "British Aristides" ...

The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of King James I (1603-1625). The Jacobean era ...

intention of training clergy so that the Puritan colony would not have to ... training of home-grown clergy so that the Puritan colony would not need to ...

followed, with varying success, by later Puritan colonies," according ... Cambridge University played an important role in advancing Puritan ...

Manasseh replied to the anti-Jewish tract of Puritan polemicist William Prynne in Vindiciae judaeorum (1656), considered one of Manasseh's finest works. ...

*Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson. 1947. The Puritan oligarchy; the founding of American civilization. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. ...

on October 27, 1800, and was of Puritan ancestry. He was reared on a farm, receiving most of his early education from his mother. ...

Act." It was proposed by a Puritan Member of Parliament, Edward ... 1662 in Boston, founded in 1630 by Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop ...

of 1604, a meeting of bishops and Puritan divines, resisted the pressure for change (save to the catechism). By the reign of Charles I (1625 ...

legacy of Americana, with its deep Christian and Puritan heritage, as a basis of many of his most memorable scores. The Lincoln Portrait, Rodeo, Billy ...

those taught by the Protestant (and Puritan) Uchimura Kanzo, who influenced famous men of letters such as Arishima Takeo, Masamune Hakucho, and ...

Catholic army was decisively defeated by a Puritan army near Annapolis in what ... The Puritan revolt lasted until 1658. In that year the Calvert family ...

During the Interregnum, England had been dominated by Puritan literature ... bartleby.com/217/0312.html Cavalier and Puritan: Writers of the Couplet: ...

Harvard educated Mather Byles, a nephew of the puritan leader Cotton Mather. Phillis Wheatley, Notable Black American Women, Book 1 (Gale Research ...

in 1642, Massachusetts Bay Colony became a Puritan stronghold. The Puritans ... Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony, and Puritan settlers traveled to Salem ...

and contrasted them with the rebuking words of Puritan preacher Cotton Mather. What could be considered her magnum opus was the production of ...

and he was later called "the last Puritan" by his student, Jesse R. Pitts (Hamilton 1983). Parsons' father also served as president ...

chancellor of the university and also a Puritan. Although he was a capable ... The influences of Locke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political ...

* Murray, Ian H. The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1971. * Strachan, Gordon. The Pentecostal ...

than the Restoration. There were Puritan authors, however, and one ... Defoe's works are consistently Puritan. They all involve a fall ...

had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theaters in 1660 signaled a rebirth of English drama. The era of Restoration ...

These last suggestions reveal Fox's Puritan leanings, which continued ... beliefs were welcome to all Quakers. His Puritan-like opposition to the arts ...

perhaps in response to the struggles of the Puritan era. Among the tragedies, The Maid's Tragedy and, especially, Rollo Duke of Normandy held the ...

years of continuous operation, it was closed by the Puritan government which closed all London theaters on moral grounds. The building was demolished ...

nicknamed him "the last Puritan" for his views; in 1788 he would write in his diary regarding the federalist and anti-federalist factions ...

from Northampton, Massachusetts, who came from Puritan and Calvinist roots, but emphasized the importance and power of immediate, personal religious ...

The Christian ethic as interpreted by the Puritan middle class called for dedication to work, honesty, thrift, and charity. It was fundamentally ...

largely as a reaction to the collapse of the Puritan era. He is often attributed to leading the way for notable playwrights such as William Congreve ...

abbey suffered damage when it was attacked by Puritan iconoclasts, but was again protected by its close ties to the state during the Commonwealth period ...

to rebel against the earlier strictures of the Puritan revolution. As tastes changed again, Congreve fell silent. For the majority of his life, he lived ...

century through certain Reformed and Puritan scholars, and the Great ... premillennialism." In the New World, Puritan ministers such as Thomas ...

played an important role in advancing Puritan and separatist principles. Robert Browne, John Greenwood, Henry Barrowe, and the future Pilgrim ...

non-conformist clergymen and closing Puritan organizations. This was ... *Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, ed. The Constitutional Documents of the ...

* The Puritan (1606) * The Revenger's Tragedy, a tragedy (1606); although sometimes attributed to Cyril Tourneur, stylistic analysis strongly ...

sweep into the towns from the desert, where a puritan lifestyle and strong group feeling are natural, establish rule then themselves become lax as ...

Woods 6 Indian Idyl 7 To an Old White Pine 8 From Puritan Days 9 From a Log Cabin 10 The Joy of Autumn Published compositions for orchestra, a ...

the Merchant Adventurers, a group of Puritan businessmen who viewed colonization ... Richard Howland Maxwell, "Pilgrim and Puritan: A Delicate Distinction ...

Marvell. It is highly likely that Dickinson, a Puritan, may have come into contact with the work of the Metaphysicals, if not directly then by way of ...

ancestry tracing to the first generation of Puritan New England immigrants, John Quincy revered both of his parents for their emphasis on virtue and the ...

founded as squatter colonies by dissenters from Puritan Massachusetts, received charters of incorporation early in the English Restoration (restoration ...

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that the king supported the Irish, and Puritan members of the Commons were ... idea of describing the civil war as a “Puritan Revolution” that challenged ...

have to face the road through the wilderness of Puritan denial, the road that Dreiser faced alone. Dreiser was a man of eclectic interests that ...

was often traced to America's Puritan heritage, particularly John ... *Gavin Finley MD, [http://www.endtimepilgrim.org/puritans03.htm Puritan ...

*Sommerville, C. John. 1992. The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820313535 ...

questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=1105748 A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge.] ===Primary sources=== *Coolidge, Calvin. 1929. [http://www ...

Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the Balfour Declaration led to the creation of the modern State of Israel as ...

married without the Queen's consent, and the Puritan Lord Huntingdon was unwilling to accept the Crown. Mary, Queen of Scots, had to suffer ...

tried for treason and executed in 1645, by the Puritan Parliament during the English Civil War. After the Parliamentary victory over the King, he was ...

What they did build was characteristically puritan in style, with little decoration. Ali ibn Yusuf supported the famous University of Al-Karaouine ...

That lusty laugh the Puritan forgot,— What ear has heard it and remembers not? How often, halting at some wide crevasse Amid the windings of ...

This policy was defeated (1585) by the Puritan wing of the council under Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and Sir Francis Walsingham. ...

members of the Congregational Church. Raised with Puritan values, daily Bible reading, and talk of God's healing power, she spent many years looking ...

Category:Public [[Image:RWEmerson.jpg|thumb|230px|Ralph Waldo Emerson]] Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was the preeminent ...

Paolo E. Coletta, William Jennings Bryan Vol. 3: Political Puritan ... ** William Jennings Bryan, Vol. 3: Political Puritan, 1915-1925. Lincoln ...

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was a versatile American actress who won acclaim in radio, film, television and ...

The German Pietist movement, together with the influence of the Puritan Reformation in England in the seventeenth century, were important influences ...

suspect, and a reminder of the repudiated Puritan era. The King James Bible then became the only current version circulated among English speaking ...

Puritan colonists from England founded the city in 1630. During the ... Boston was founded on September 17, 1630, by Puritan colonists from ...

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of the city, and various offshoots of the Puritan and "Independent" ... than the Restoration. There were Puritan authors, however, and one ...

#039;s eyes Dickens belongs to Merry, not Puritan, England" (see Merry England); Ker treats in chapter 4 of that book Chesterton's ...

were accused of antinomian teachings by the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts. ==Antinomianism in Islam== In Islam, Sharia (شريعة) (law ...

Sabbath or Shabbat (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, "rest"; Shabbos or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in ...

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 ...

(1615–1705) an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony, and Honor Treat, the daughter of Richard Treat (1584–1669 ...

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 ...

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 ...

of anti-rationalist dogmatism among the Puritan divines, put forward what they conceived to be a set of rational grounds for Christianity. They ...

grandfathers were among the nonconformist (Puritan) clergy ejected by the Church ... of England, did not leave behind her Puritan austerities. As a consequence ...

everyone being equal before God). It was also puritan or spartan, avoiding festivals, music, icons, liturgy. and even visual symbols, dedicating ...

theaters as a consequence of the iconoclasm of the Puritan revolution. ==Life== ===Early life=== Born the second of five children, and only boy ...

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 ...

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 ...

reaction to the morally stern period of the Puritan government. Sheridan also participated in Parliament for Stafford, Westminster, Ilchester ...

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 ...

During the English Puritan period, Ba'al was either equated with Satan or considered his main lieutenant. While the Semitic high god Baal ...

analysis of his findings, Weber maintained that Puritan (and more widely, Protestant) religious ideas had had a major impact on the development of the ...

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 ...

The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which reads, "Congress ...

One of the primary manifestations of this was the Puritan movement, which sought to "purify" the existing Church of England of its many residual ...

Weber-Merton Thesis, Merton suggested that the Puritan ethos was not indispensable, although it did provide major support at that time and place.Russel ...

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 ...

451 It may, however, also be a sign of Puritan sympathies, which some sources ... * The Puritan * The Second Maiden's Tragedy * Sir John Oldcastle ...

a result of the efforts of Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister, and his patron, Royal Governor John Wentworth. (Queen's College, now Rutgers University ...

Gould maintained, "I am something of a Puritan" with respect to any substances that would alter or dull his mental state—not drinking alcohol ...

The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, historically known as the French Calvinists. Calvinism, and ...

The fathers of New England; a chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths. (The Chronicles of America series, v. 6.) New Haven: Yale University Press. ...

title ironically derived from John Bunyan's Puritan allegory of redemption The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)—follows the career of fortune ...

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 ...

near present day Boston (consisting mainly of Puritan Christians, who had very different religious beliefs from the Pilgrims) celebrated Thanksgiving ...

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 ...

to 1760, its main revivalist Jonathan Edwards with Puritan heritage gave his postmillenarian message, encouraging people to take active responsibility ...

*Conservative/puritan criticism went further, condemning Qutb's Islamist/reformist ideas—such as social justice as "western" ...

his father Charles I fought Parliamentary and Puritan forces in the English Civil War. The prince accompanied his father during the Battle of Edgehill ...

Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom of belief and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. It is generally ...

A fourth-generation American whose Puritan ancestors arrived in Massachusetts in 1636, Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president ...

Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Connecticut is ...

The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα , dráma), which is derived from "to do" ...

until the nineteenth century, where lingering Puritan tradition restricted the observance of many holidays. American almanacs of the late-eighteenth ...

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 ...

founding. Born to a candlemaker in Puritan Boston, he became a wealthy ... #039;s sense of exceptionalism – the Puritan and biblical image of "a ...

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 ...

though only a tiny percentage of Americans have Puritan ancestors. Another theory suggests that the exodus describes the historical expulsion ...

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 ...

insights into symbolism, Transcendentalism and the Puritan sensibility, were a significant factor in the revival of the reputation of Herman Melville ...

Oregon Monthly. In a small city steeped in "puritan moralism," she was the first to wear rouge on campus; she had multiple boyfriends, and ...

of this theological point of view was the Puritan-American preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). Edwards believed that indeterminism ...

preacher, Cornelis Trigland, a follower of the very puritan theologian Gisbertus Voetius, was chosen to daily instruct the prince in the state religion ...

They deliberately chose a fairly sober, puritan lifestyle. They favored a liberal economy and the abolition of old regulations, and advocated ...

them to break the harassing chains of Puritan tradition. George Sylvester Viereck, The Candle and the Flame (Legare Street Press, 2022 (original ...

Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the ...

England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and is located to the ...

Seeger called "enormously Christian, in the Puritan, Calvinist New England tradition,"David King Dunaway, How Can I Keep From Singing (Villard ...

* Nazarbaev, Nursultan. Epicenter of Peace. Hollis, NH: Puritan Press, 2001. ISBN 1884186130 * Nazpary, Joma. Post-soviet Chaos: Violence and ...

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 ...