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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"puritanism"”.
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Protestant jurisdictionalism and the nature of puritanism, c. 1559–1642
… key finding is that Elizabethan and early Stuart puritanism can only be understood within the broader European context of Protestant kingdoms, territories, and city-states codifying and enforcing church discipline according to established law, and under the supreme authority of the Christian …
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English Puritanism and the Transformation of Philosophy, c. 1640–1690
… doctrine in the 1650s. This contribution of puritanism to early science has been neglected by intellectual historians, whose taxonomical assumptions rest on the ecclesial landscape of the 1660s. By challenging this, the thesis contributes to the older debate about the relationship between …
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The mystical theology of Peter Sterry : a study in neoplatonist Puritanism
Peter Sterry (1613-72) was a complex and fascinating man living amid tumultuous times. Largely neglected and ignored by historians and philosophers in the centuries since his death, Sterry nonetheless deserves attention as an impmtant member of the Cambridge Platonist movement, a key forerunner of …
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Piety and Puritanism in the Plays of the Poetess-Punk Aphra Behn
<p>This project consists of five stand-alone essays explicating religious themes within the following of Aphra Behn's plays: The Lucky Chance, The Feigned Courtesans, The Rover, The Emperor of the Moon, and The Widdow Ranter; Or The History of Bacon in Virginia. Since the feminist recovery of her …
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Four Views of the Nature and Role of Women in Sixteenth Century Protestantism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and English Puritanism
<p>Never in its fifteen-hundred year history had the Roman Catholic Church been so shaken as when, in the sixteenth century, a mere handful of men advanced the Scriptural doctrines that were to result in the rise of Protestantism. The sole authority of the Bible, the priesthood of all believers, …
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Early Puritan Attitudes and Their Influence on Contemporary Literature, Especially the Drama
… reformation seen in its extreme manifestation in Puritanism. |Puritanism, though etymologically and, at first, primarily concerned with religious worship, developed moral, social, economic, and political aspects and attitudes which helped to create a cultural milieu which greatly influenced the …
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Maypoles and Misfits : A Study of Puritan Orthodoxy and Anglican Heterodoxy in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts
<p>The particular ideas and history of Puritanism in America has been the focus of historians of many different persuasions for diverse purposes. The relationship between Puritanism in England and the evolution of Puritanism in America, as it relates to the history of Anglicanism and American …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's attitudes toward organized Christianity.
… kind is a review of Hawthorne's attitudes toward Puritanism, for Puritanism was a vital part of Hawthorne's heritage to which he reacted quite prolifically. The next chapter treats Hawthorne's attitudes toward Unitarianism, the liberal denomination to which many were turning during Hawthorne's …
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A Quantitative Interpretation of Five Puritan Preachers Spanning Four Generations
… discloses a change in perspective in regard to Puritanism. Puritanism is now understood as far less unified and bigoted than it was once thought to be. From the prevailing view of the 1920's which saw Puritans as narrow-minded seventeenth-century fundamentalists, the pendulum swung in the 1930's …
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Developing an Awareness of the Demonic in Biblical Counseling, in Conversation With William Perkins
William Perkins, the father of Puritanism and the great popularizer of Reformed and Puritan theology from the sixteenth century onward, articulated a robust situational demonology further developed by Puritan writers subsequent to his theological contributions to the field. His demonology serves as …
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Political Theology and the Levellers: A discussion of the theological sources of the political thought of the Levellers and of some implications for modern understandings of political liberalism
… and terminology, particularly in relation to Puritanism. The opposition to fundamental elements of Puritanism will be shown to be a hermeneutic key that unlocks our understanding of the Levellers. The research calls into question particular socialist readings of the Levellers. It also …
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Religion in Lancashire 1603-1640
… state from all my sins, all atheism, popery and puritanism, which in this corner grow ripe for the sickle', and in 1617 James I complained 'that two sorts of people wherewith that county is much infected (we mean papists and puritans) have maliciously traduced and calumniated these our just and …
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