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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