Search results for "Puritan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- *Conservative/puritan criticism went further, condemning Qutb's Islamist/reformist ideas—such as social justice as "western" ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- his father Charles I fought Parliamentary and Puritan forces in the English Civil War. The prince accompanied his father during the Battle of Edgehill ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom of belief and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. It is generally ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- A fourth-generation American whose Puritan ancestors arrived in Massachusetts in 1636, Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Connecticut is ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα , dráma), which is derived from "to do" ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- until the nineteenth century, where lingering Puritan tradition restricted the observance of many holidays. American almanacs of the late-eighteenth ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- 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 ...41 KB (6,248 words) - 19:30, 26 October 2021
- suspect, and a reminder of the repudiated Puritan era. The King James Bible then became the only current version circulated among English speaking ...43 KB (6,830 words) - 17:26, 6 June 2024
- 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 ...40 KB (5,720 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
- founding. Born to a candlemaker in Puritan Boston, he became a wealthy ... #039;s sense of exceptionalism – the Puritan and biblical image of "a ...83 KB (12,292 words) - 20:34, 25 May 2024
- 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 ...42 KB (5,883 words) - 04:20, 24 May 2024
- though only a tiny percentage of Americans have Puritan ancestors. Another theory suggests that the exodus describes the historical expulsion ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- insights into symbolism, Transcendentalism and the Puritan sensibility, were a significant factor in the revival of the reputation of Herman Melville ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
- Oregon Monthly. In a small city steeped in "puritan moralism," she was the first to wear rouge on campus; she had multiple boyfriends, and ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- of this theological point of view was the Puritan-American preacher and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). Edwards believed that indeterminism ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- preacher, Cornelis Trigland, a follower of the very puritan theologian Gisbertus Voetius, was chosen to daily instruct the prince in the state religion ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 2023
- They deliberately chose a fairly sober, puritan lifestyle. They favored a liberal economy and the abolition of old regulations, and advocated ...54 KB (8,542 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- them to break the harassing chains of Puritan tradition. George Sylvester Viereck, The Candle and the Flame (Legare Street Press, 2022 (original ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
