Search results for "Puritan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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 ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- conflict with Walter Travers, a leading Puritan and Assistant (Reader) at ... had been Roman Catholics while on earth. A Puritan clergyman criticized this ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- Gospels, and the best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. Santayana was ... in Modern Philosophy (1933), The Last Puritan (1935), Persons and Places ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024
- of Elizabeth's reign went toward the puritan, which discouraged the liturgical polyphony. Tallis wrote nine psalm chant tunes in parts for ...6 KB (933 words) - 22:55, 30 April 2023
- ===Puritan roots=== were embodied by the Protestantism of Puritan settlers of New England ...29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
- was a particularly contentious time. The Puritan revolution had begun with ... became a place in which the anti-thesis to puritan values became manifest. ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
- , was a socially and politically influential Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Mather descended from colonial New England's ...26 KB (3,857 words) - 08:24, 10 January 2024
- of his fiction, while Hawthorne brooded over the Puritan experience in his novels and short stories. The direct descendant of John Hawthorne, a presiding ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 20:30, 19 May 2020
- up preaching. He is identified with the Puritan tradition. Those not episcopally ... In theology, Bunyan was a Puritan, but contrary to stereotypes, there ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 04:30, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (2,977 words) - 11:10, 10 May 2023
- 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 ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- of Charles I and the establishment of the Puritan-influenced English Commonwealth. ... unconventional stands in conflict with Puritan values. In "The Doctrine ...27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 2024
- the one hand, the narrow dogmatism of the Puritan divines, with their anti ... for judging the private revelations of Puritan theology and the proper ...25 KB (3,863 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Ballroom dance refers to a set of learned partner dances, which are enjoyed socially and engaged in competitively around the globe. Any of the ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theaters in 1642, after the Puritan revolution ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- 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 ...24 KB (3,678 words) - 01:48, 23 December 2022
- the second of four siblings. His father was a Puritan minister. In 1671, he entered Winchester School, where he studied Greek and Latin literature ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Puritan ideology had the largest influence on English colonists in ... Following the Puritan ideology, the intellectuals of the American ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- "too Catholic" by those of Puritan leanings in the sixteenth century and Evangelicals in later periods, and "too Evangelical" ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
