2025年3月25日 · Puritanism, a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that was known for the intensity of the religious experience that it fostered. Puritans’ efforts contributed to both civil war in England and the founding of colonies in America.

Puritanism is considered crucial to understanding the religious, political and cultural issues of early modern England. In addition, historians such as Perry Miller have regarded Puritan New England as fundamental to understanding American culture and identity.

2009年10月29日 · The Puritans were members of a religious reform movement known as Puritanism that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century. They believed the Church of England was...

2021年1月12日 · The Puritans were English Protestant Christians, primarily active in the 16th-18th centuries CE, who claimed the Anglican Church had not distanced itself sufficiently from Catholicism and sought to 'purify' it of Catholic practices.

2022年8月22日 · Puritanism was a wide movement that included legalism (like banning Christmas celebrations), freedom movements (like the Pilgrims settling in America). So what is Puritanism in its most basic form? Who were the Puritans? What did the Puritans believe?

2019年11月24日 · Puritanism was a religious reformation movement that began in England in the late 1500s. Its initial goal was removing any remaining links to Catholicism within the Church of England after its separation from the Catholic Church.

As Puritanism began to solidify as a movement, its core beliefs took shape around the desire for a more puritanical interpretation of Christianity. Puritans emphasized the necessity for personal piety, a commitment to the scripture, and the importance of living a life devoid of sin.

The history of the Puritans can be traced back to the first Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI, the formation of an identifiable Puritan movement in the 1560s and ends in a decline in the mid-18th century.

Puritanism, Movement in the late 16th and 17th century that sought to “purify” the Church of England, leading to civil war in England and to the founding of colonies in North America.

The Puritans were a group of English -speaking Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. A Puritan was any person who tried to become purer through worship and doctrine. Puritans disagreed with some of the Church of England's actions and thought that the English Reformation had not gone far enough.