Search results for "Puritan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
