History of the Puritans

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Puritans

The Puritan, an 1887 statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, in Springfield, Massachusetts

Background

* Christianity
* Protestantism
* Reformation
* English Reformation
* Calvinism
* Anglicanism
* Arminianism
* Arminianism in the Church of England
* English Dissenters
* Independents
* Nonconformism
* English Presbyterianism
* Ecclesiastical separatism
* 17th-century denominations in England

Crucial themes

* Definitions of Puritanism
* Impropriation
* Puritan Sabbatarianism
* Millennialism
* Puritan choir
* Puritan work ethic
* Merton thesis

History

* History under Queen Elizabeth I
* History under King James I
* History under King Charles I
* Cromwellian era and after
* History in North America

Confessions

* Westminster Confession of Faith
* Savoy Declaration
* Cambridge Platform

England

* Scrooby Congregation
* Trial of Archbishop Laud
* Marian exiles
* Vestments controversy
* Martin Marprelate
* Millenary Petition
* Grand Remonstrance
* English Civil War
* English Restoration
* Act of Uniformity 1662
* Great Ejection
* Elizabethan Religious Settlement

America

* Providence Island Company
* Massachusetts Bay Colony Rhode Island Colony
* Salem witch trials
* Immigration to New England
* Culture in New England
* Christmas prohibition
* Praying town
* Half-Way Covenant
* American exceptionalism

Elsewhere

Troubles at Frankfurt

Notable individuals

* Peter Bulkley
* John Bunyan
* Henry Denne
* William Bradford
* Anne Bradstreet
* John Cotton
* Oliver Cromwell
* John Endecott
* Jonathan Edwards
* Anne Hutchinson
* Cotton Mather
* Increase Mather
* James Noyes
* Thomas Parker
* Roger Williams
* John Winthrop
* Robert Woodford

Works

* The Godly Man's Picture
* The Pilgrim's Progress
* Paradise Lost
* Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Continuing movements

* Congregationalists (U.S.)
* Baptists
* English Presbyterians

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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. The status of the Puritans as a religious group in England changed frequently as a result of both political shifts in their relationship to the state and the Church of England, and of changing views of Puritans. It is not typically summarised as a whole, since the political events of the 1640s, sometimes called the Puritan Revolution, have complex roots, not any more than the term "Puritan" can be given a useful and precise definition outside the particular historical context. The Puritan's main purpose was to purify the Church of England and to make England a more Christian country.

* History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I, 1558–1603
* History of the Puritans under James I, 1603–1625
* History of the Puritans under Charles I, 1625–1649
* History of the Puritans from 1649
* History of the Puritans in North America

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