Christian History Magazine—Issue 41: The American Puritans
Overview
Puritanism, as Sydney Ahlstrom wrote, “is an intellectual tradition of great profundity.” The Puritans were people on a mission: to create a pure church and a thoroughly Christian society. Often mislabeled as cold and devoid of happiness, true Puritans sought to live life joyfully through work and play, committing all things to the glory of God. One sixteenth-century tract even promotes them as “the hotter sort of Protestants.” Open this issue of Christian History & Biography to learn the many great qualities of an underappreciated denomination.
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Top Highlights
“Some passionately sought to make the Protestant Reformation a redeeming reality in all of English life and culture, thus purifying it. They came to be called Puritans. The Puritans wanted to rid the Church of England of all evidences of its historic Catholic connection, and to let the New Testament determine church order and worship.” (source)
“When American colonists declared their independence in 1776, a full 75 percent came from Puritan roots.” (source)
“the Puritans later assumed the denominational name of Congregationalists” (source)
“In an astonishing act of daring, the Puritans, even in the first decade of their colony, founded a college, which would soon take the name of Harvard. Patterned after Cambridge University, from which most Puritan ministers had graduated, Harvard College faithfully reflected the Puritan community. The ‘rules and precepts’ of 1646 stipulated that every student ‘shall consider the main end of his life and studies to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life.’” (source)
“The weighty task of government, then, was to see that the covenant was not broken, that in both behavior and belief the Puritan settlers did nothing to offend God. The covenant bound them to know the will of God, as revealed in the Bible, and to follow that will as faithfully as human frailty would permit.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 41: The American Puritans
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 1994
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Puritans › United States
- Resource ID: LLS:12.30.41
- Resource Type: Magazine
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