How To Use Puritan In A Sentence

For Puritanism was, above all else, a Bible movement.
The Puritans left England to escape being persecuted.
The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.
Fueled by supremacist and puritan theological creeds their symbolic acts of power become uncompromisingly fanatic and violent.
the Puritan ethic

These New Puritans, an English band that has just released its debut album, “Beat Pyramid” (Domino), played rock that was spikier than a bushel of sea urchins. SXSW: 15 Minutes With These New Puritans - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
Concepts highly prized by Puritans still exist in debased form in American mass culture.
I sometimes wish GUD didn't publish adult-leaning content so that we could more easily market to perspicacious YA -- but at least in puritanical-US, that would be litigiously dangerous. MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
More than a religion, Puritanism was a way of life.
The King's religious policies, strictly applied by Archbishop Laud, gave offence to the Puritan merchants and artisans.
Despite his apparent liberal views, he's really something of a puritan/he has a puritan streak.
The constitution of the League was termed by Mr. Wilson a Covenant, a word redolent of biblical and puritanical times, which accorded well with the motives that decided him to prefer Geneva to Brussels as the seat of the League, and to adopt other measures of a supposed political character. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
The Puritan paradox, to name it such, was that a rigorous defense of the absoluteness of Scripture as an objective, prescriptive code, could not be made without a critical analysis of the contents of Scripture itself.
James had none of Elizabeth's fearful paranoia about Catholics and Puritans.
Having confessed, according to the terms of the text, that the field or ground is not the Church, but the world, he proceeds, with a very strong animus against what he calls puritanism or separatism, [14] to argue in the usual way against every attempt to purify the visible The Parables of Our Lord
Many of us are not puritans and puritans don't go to strip clubs - why make an issue about it?
If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish? — The Abbot
Associated Press In the centuries after the Reformation, some Protestants, notably the Puritans in England, sought to ban Christmas celebrations as pagan bacchanals, which they often were. No Church This Sunday—It's Christmas
The roof's prism casts the light throughout the chapel, balancing the only other objects inside - a puritan aesthetic of elegantly austere seating, a simple organ and the barest suggestion of an altar.
Clashes between conformists and Puritans resulted in the suppression of the organized Presbyterian wing of Puritanism by 1591, but the impact of Puritans on the Church at a local level remained enormous.
But the Joyce-Eliot group come later in time, puritanism is not their main adversary, they are able from the start to see through most of the things that their predecessors had fought for. Inside the Whale
Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with _musquetoon_ on shoulder. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
The Puritans left England to escape being persecuted.
Sergeant-at-Arms elevated his mace -- that "bauble" of authority so distasteful to the Puritans -- and the Speaker began to swear in the members State by State. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
He was known as a zealous puritan, and had given his sister in marriage to the celebrated Edmund Cartwright the leader of the sect. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
A strong sense of right and wrong inspired paintings satirizing puritan hypocrisy and the destruction of wildlife.
The ‘puritan forebears’ who didn't drink, swear, gamble, or fool around are pretty much an invention of 19th and 20th century Comstockery.
In his lifetime he saw the English Church sway from extreme Puritanism to near Catholicism.
The music consisted of a band of guitars, from which the performers, common men, and probably self-taught, contrived to draw wonderfully good music, and, in the intervals of dancing, played airs from the Straniera and Puritani. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
He was neither a prude nor a Puritan, but he was scornful of self-indulgence, and though he earned a reputation as the champion of the poor, it was only of the deserving and never of the idle.
The Puritan villagers believed all the quarreling was the work of the Devil. Boing Boing
LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.
And even in plays with twists and turns and convolutions of the storyline such as Bartholomew Fair where the names of the characters -- Littlewit, Winwife, Quarlous -- tell us what they are, their games of language and wordplay make the plot -- Puritans and rogues meet up at a county fair and fun and thievery ensue -- secondary to the fun and revelry. Play on Words
Both Calvin and the Puritans held to a view of Scripture that created its own difficulties.
I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
He said that we of the South had descended from the royal and aristocratic blood of the Huguenots of France, and of the cavaliers of England, etc.; but that the Yankees were the descendents of the crop-eared Puritans and witch burners, who came over in the Mayflower, and settled at Plymouth Rock. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.
To treat with national heritage Puritanism, his attitude is criticism, and retrospect.
Instead, in echoes of the state's puritanical censors of the past, officials are trying to suppress truthful information because it "arouses" the public. Financial Info: Banned in Boston
The position presented may look like a quest for spirituality shaped by a mixture of scientific secularism, Buddhist contentedness, and American Puritan self-control and self-leadership.
He was strict, almost Puritan in his religious beliefs, and passionate about protecting the country from Catholic threat.
The symbolism of the pole decorated with ribbons and garlands was deeply offensive to the Puritans and maypoles were forbidden by Oliver Cromwell's parliament from 1644.
Is there some truth in that or is it just latent puritanism?
Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.
The generosity of Hooker's reading of Scripture made it accessible to those who could never belong to Puritan society.
Sad-colored mantles the goodmen wore, but their doublets were scarlet, and with their green waistcoats and red caps, surely the Puritan men were sufficiently gayly dressed to suit any fancy save that of a cavalier. Sabbath in Puritan New England
Is the baby boomer electorate so puritanical that they would punish progressive politicians who voiced support for liberalizing or legalizing intoxicants, or simply marijuana?
This is Jacobean comedy at its documentary best: a salty, vivid report on the eternal clash between the puritan ethic and spendthrift snobbery.
Teetotalers, or people who drink in moderation, on the other hand are boring, no fun, puritans, kill-joys etc.
There would he lay till they would him descry, spancelled down upon a blossomy bed, at one foule stretch, amongst the daffydowndillies, the flowers of narcosis fourfettering his footlights, a halohedge of wild spuds hovering over him, epicures waltzing with gardenfillers, puritan shoots advancing to Aran chiefs. Finnegans Wake
Puritan jurisprudence, 113; sabbatarian extravagance provokes reaction, 371. A History of American Christianity
That credit belongs to the early Puritan families.
Believing in the omnipresence of God in the disposal of man's fate, these stern Puritans accepted all that life delivered with an unbreakable will.
Perhaps it was the churchy atmosphere, the Puritan holier-than-thou image, not that Mike seemed to have that kind of image. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
There only remained the blacksmith's shop, and though the blacksmith was a Puritan and none of his people, Wilfred Bohun had heard some scandals about a beautiful and rather celebrated wife. The Father Brown Omnibus
Such warfare was at odds with both Puritan theology and accepted military practices.
This goes back to the puritans and pioneers who settled this country.
With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
At an execution, a defendant in the Puritan colonies was expected to confess, and thus to save his soul.
Arensberg was not the only visitor to be perplexed by a country where, he noted, ‘a puritanical morality’ coexisted with ‘the hilarity of the race meeting.’
He introduced to music a new puritanism, an acute political awareness and diamond-hard intelligence.
This is progressive rock at its most puritanical. Times, Sunday Times
Yet even Puritanism was, in the end, concerned with the individual soul, and individual salvation.
And we, the Southerners who are called the cavaliers, are led by a puritan," said Lieutenant-Colonel St. Hilaire. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
A number of Puritan clerics in Old England harshly criticized their New England brethren for not converting the Indians before killing them.
He propagated ideas and emphases which departed from the biblical tradition established by the Reformers and Puritans.
Those Puritan forefathers generate their fair share of criticism from we their modern-day descendants.
At around this same time, other liberal Puritans were discovering via English Unitarian intermediaries and adopting as their own the antitrinitarian Christology and quasi-Pelagian soteriology of the radical Reformers. Philocrites: The UU gospel according to Fausto.
Hawthorne has been looked upon as the necrologist of the Puritans, and yet a certain coloring of Puritanism adhered to him to the last. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
It included marginal notes which commended it to the Puritans, who wished to study it without need of priestly interpretation.
The new building steers the straits between meticulous restoration and furious demolition, refusing a puritanical stance towards the glass-cased bibelot.
In this they were standing upon the high ground taken by Richard Baxter, an authority among the Puritans, who, denouncing the use of the slaves as beasts for their mere commodity, said, that their masters who "betray or destroy or neglect their souls are fitter to be called incarnate devils than Christians though they be no Christian whom they so abuse. The History of the Negro Church
Robespierre, a narrow, prudish, jealous, puritanical but able lawyer from Arras, with journalists like Desmoulins and Loustallot, inveighed against what they described as iniquitous class legislation that would have excluded from the councils of the French nation Jean The French Revolution A Short History
Individuals who willfully refused to comply with Puritan precepts were excluded altogether from the promise of grace.
The long arm of Puritan persecution continued to harass those who embraced dissenting views causing a Baptist migration to New Jersey.
The puritans of the Catholic Church, they opposed lax theology, excessive papal and episcopal power, and above all the influence of the Jesuits in Church and State.
These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse.
With his patrician ancestry, going back to the Puritans on his mother's side, he acts as though he is born to rule.
Lord Acton's erroneous idea, that Ridolfi was employed by Pius V to obtain Elizabeth's assassination, seems to have arisen from a mistranslation of Gabutio's Latin Life of St. Pius in the Bollandists Cecil eventually discovered the intrigue; Norfolk was beheaded, 2 June, 1572, and the Puritans clamoured for Mary's blood, but in this particular Elizabeth would not gratify them. Mary Queen of Scots
But the new puritans argue that any risk, no matter how infinitesimal, is intolerable.
If you read the Puritans regularly, their Bible-centeredness becomes contagious.
He likens himself to the Puritan divines he studied in graduate school, whose religious scruples were part of their confession of faith.
His career as an MP ended with the Addled Parliament of 1614, and he died in 1620, leaving money - and a share in a Smithfield pub - to a number of puritan causes.
These Puritans, who did have a royal charter, wanted unity even more than did the Pilgrims.
For the Old Testament prophet as well as the Puritan merchant, the real fear was that God would punish the entire community for spiritual as much as for literal whoredom.
Members tend to be puritanical in moral teachings and to disapprove of Sufism.
So the ungauged reservoir turns out to be an inclosed basin, but Dorothea was prevented by her social lot, and perverse goodness, and puritanical The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with _musquetoon_ on shoulder. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
There are many puritans in Lower Potawatomi Valley, who are possibly descendants of those who long ago opposed ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England.
Similarly, the film responds to contemporary American culture's own dominant constructions of sexuality (codified by Hollywood films and other media representations) and puritanical abhorrence of non-normative sexualities.
Flimsy storylines concentrate on chaste boy-girl relationships, with hip-grinding dance numbers providing enough sex to titillate the audience without upsetting India's puritanical film censors.
Above all it is the seriousness, the consistent refusal to engage in light banter or jollity, the unflinching Puritanism (as of Elders of the Kirk), indeed the crippling shyness that strike one most forcefully nearly fifty years on. Archive 2009-04-01
My father, Richard Hoggart, was one of the witnesses in the real trial and, I guess, helped sway the jury with his insistence that the book, and Lawrence himself, were "puritanical" - not in the sense of hating pleasure but in having respect for one's own conscience. Archive 2006-01-01
Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts.
The difference between Puritans and Anglicans is nicely illustrated in sermons from the period.
In the quaint 1950s in the very Puritan U.S., there were "nudist" and "art photo" magazines that pushed the legal envelop and "men's" magazines explored how much of a woman's anatomy they could show and still stay at least one millimeter away from the legal limit. Sunbelt Blog
Slowly the gamy past of a girl from a Dutch village becomes clear, a past amid the Amsterdam docks, where Dutch Puritanism is overwhelmed by the very smells of the spices being unloaded from ships that have come from the Indies.
He said: 'You get this constant swing between puritanism and the desire to push things as far as they can go: what I call cavaliers v roundheads. Chortle News RSS
Viewing the drama and the playhouses as destructive of virtue and provocative of vice, the Puritans wished to close them down - a threat to Shakespeare's art and livelihood.
Townsend referred to his ‘substructure of puritan tradition’ and the austerity of his ‘intellectual integrity of attitude’.
Sir Antony held his head solemnly on one side, weighed him with puritanical scrupulosity to a quarter of an ounce on his delicate balance, listened attentively at the chest with his silver-mounted stethoscope, and perpended the net result of his investigation with professional gravity; then he gave Philistia
The Puritan charges to which Hooker felt obliged to respond were at times quite specific, either contrary to Scripture or unscriptural.
Thus, the fusion of different creeds undertaken by the women in the Convent represents a dialogic interchange among the Puritan, the Catholic and the pagan beliefs, rather than a counter discourse to any of these.
It had frequently been the practice of the Puritans to form certain assemblies, which they called "prophesyings;" where alternately, as moved by the spirit, they displayed their pious zeal in prayers and exhortations, and raised their own enthusiasm, as well as that of their audience, to the highest pitch, from that social contagion which has so mighty an influence on holy fervors, and from the mutual emulation which arose in those trials of religious eloquence. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
With his patrician ancestry, going back to the Puritans on his mother's side, he acts as though he is born to rule.
So begone, hypocritical puritans, and let the rest of us get on with enjoying our daily dose of sex and gossip.
It's about time we abandoned this puritanical attitude toward sex.
puritanic distaste for alcohol
He employed the term slyly, knowing his somewhat puritanical publisher would not recognize it. Black and White World: This Gun for Hire – The Bleat.
There were none, whose behaviour shined brighter in the eyes of men, nor whose heart was more loathsome in the eyes of God; for they did all to be seen and talked of; and (as it were) to ride in triumph upon the tongues of men; and, in fine, were the arrantest puritans in the world, those only of a later date excepted, who, it is confessed, have infinitely outdone their original. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
Despite his apparent liberal views, he's really something of a puritan/he has a puritan streak.
The biggest mutual funds like to adorn themselves with high-minded monikers like Fidelity, Puritan, Flagship, and Strong American.
In England, it remained distinctively regional, and was particularly associated with areas of Puritan activism and social predominance like Essex.
Such ideas, so distant from the old Puritan concepts of afterlife in heaven, became part of his transcendentalist package.
I also note that your puritanical underbelly is showing. Think Progress » VIDEO: House Conservatives Reveal What God Thinks About Gay Marriage Amendment
It looked for a moment as though the Wahabis were to sweep the East and puritanize all The New World of Islam
The health motivation was pusillanimous and puritanical.
He relates himself to Milton and the puritan revolution, and the Levellers, and Thomas Paine.
The success of the Plymouth colony thus attracted more Europeans and set off what we call the "Great Puritan Migration.
Puritans believed that the Bible was the word of God.
Raynal, the inhabitants still preserved a kind of rigorism that savours of the sombre days in which the Puritan colonies had their rise. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
The Puritans - who sought to frame their lives according to God's Word and were Edwards' spiritual forebears - wrote a great deal about this subject.
There are remarkable few studies of animal sex unconfounded by Puritanism. Frans de Waal: Fellating Female Fruit Bats
Well, I think the press - they're kind of decadent puritans.
Such a doctrine is a doctrine of puritanism -- or purism, which is worse. The Bertrams
Although they have yet to be labelled smug, morally diseased puritans by senior French philosophers, Moat's critics are rapidly discovering that theirs is the thicko side of the argument. Polanski's 'genius' is only a defence to the morally vacuous
Puritan women expected to submit to their husbands and to focus on homemaking as their career.
The practical vs. the puritan is a choice that cuts to the heart of all politics. Rhoades Alderson: To D.C., ♥ N.E.: Primary Choices for the Netroots
Elizabeth, he soon learnt from the gossip of the household, was as determined to put down the Puritan "prophesyings" as the popish services; for both alike tended to injure the peace she was resolved to maintain. By What Authority?
After all, caricaturing Palin as a purity queen (Bible Spice, Sexy Puritan) is just the flip side of caricaturing her as a porn queen. Quote of the Day: From the Mouths of Feminists
The intermingled sable and silver of the armed, "majestical" ghost link him with England's lost dark/fair consensus, and with its militant reemergence in the alliance of persecuted Catholics and Puritans under tolerationist Essex. 'The One and Only'
In Book VII, Hooker defends episcopal organization as being superior to the Presbyterian structure favored by most Puritans.
You have been intimidated by their moralising self-righteousness, brow-beaten by their puritanical spartanism, seduced by their appointment-diary ethics.
From its inception there had been a committed Protestant minority who aspired to complete a full Protestant reformation - the Puritans.
Yet, strangely, we know we aren't in the presence of a latter-day Puritan.
Puritan writers in New England were virtuosos of the genre.
Both films explore what happens when communities become subject to a grinding puritanism.
As she was singing - in a very decorous, quiet manner, in keeping with the Puritan distrust of the secular arts - her mother opened their back door.
Having a child in this society was about as much a sin as being an adulteress in the Puritan society of The Scarlet Letter.
Thus it was amazing to me how quickly, faced with the possible loss of the most important person in the world, I overcame my puritan principles and called abjectly for help. RutlandHerald.com
This may all sound a tad twee and puritanical, but the food isn't. Times, Sunday Times
Forrest, the straight-laced Puritan, had died of a hunting accident. CHAPTER XXX
Their preachers were both papists and Puritans, Jacobites and republicans; they ravished wives or influenced them to give up all fleshly pleasures; they coveted other men's goods or denied them the use of worldly possessions.
While in this new valuation he still retains the character of a disputatious, puritanical polemist, erratic in conduct, surly in manner, irascible in temper, biting in speech, it invests him with a shrinking reluctance to adopt any action however radical without the approval of the congregation or its accredited representatives. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The clatter has been expelled and our standards of audience attention are almost puritanical. Times, Sunday Times
They are soaked through and through with that old strain of English puritanism that looks on pleasure as a mortal danger. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
These regulations did not prevent the production of broadsheets and pamphlets, particularly of a puritan bent.
Where will prosecutors and overzealous puritans draw the line?
Perhaps it was the churchy atmosphere, the Puritan holier-than-thou image, not that Mike seemed to have that kind of image. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct. Chapter 16
They preached the pure doctrine and pure life that Puritans had cherished ever since they formed under Elizabeth and chafed under James.
Donatello has been puritanized, and though the character may be a perfect symbolic type, it has nothing racial in it; and to be racial was Donatello's charm. Nathaniel Hawthorne
On both sides of her family she could trace her ancestry back to Puritan settlers and landed gentry.
It must be some puritan streak in me, but I find the detailed discussion of tastes and sensations nauseating and very distressing to read.
As a tyke, little Bobby Jones was a frail, sickly kid, living under the auspices of protective parents, and a Puritanical grandfather.
Our data from the cemetery in Harvard Square, a bastion of Puritan religious and intellectual power, seems to demonstrate this point.
They adhered to an old-fashioned and somewhat puritanical morality, and criticized their friend Ingrid Bergman for destroying her film career by having an illegitimate child with Roberta Rossellini.
In other words, the noble landlords and magnates, whose values were decidedly not those of Puritan asceticism, were in the vanguard of capitalism.
Puritanism made a substantial impact on Anglo-America.
This Mercy was granddaughter to one of Cromwell's ironsides, and brought her rare personal merit into their house, and also the best blood of the old Puritans, than which there is no blood in Europe more rich in male courage, female chastity, and all the virtues. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston.
The world taken _en masse_ is a monster, crammed with prejudices, packed with prepossessions, cankered with what it calls virtues, a puritan, a prig. The Green Carnation
It is alright, I guess, when he gets his puritanic streak up and goes after people he does not like. Keith Olbermann calls out Rush Limbaugh for saying why he thinks John Edwards cheated on Elizabeth.
Our puritan culture often inhibits us from thoroughly educating our adolescents or at times from even allowing frank and open discussion on sex education and the human body.
The Puritans had no more interest in astronomy or physics than in the fine points of Catholic theology.
Despite their antagonism towards religion and ‘bourgeois morality’, the communists had a puritanical attitude to sex.
Calvinism---Strict theological doctrine of the French Protestant church reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) and the basis of Puritan society.
LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.
Compare that to the United States with our puritanical attitudes toward sex and federal funding for abstinence-only education.
This is progressive rock at its most puritanical. Times, Sunday Times
Hefner dismisses what she describes as the "puritanical, antisexual, antimale" wing of feminism, but she nonetheless identifies herself as a feminist, declaring, "To say you're not a feminist is virtually the same thing as saying you're a racist. GOOD Magazine: XXX CEO
I'm sure there are those down here who just see me as a Scot with a Calvinist streak and a puritanical attitude.
But hark at me, coming over all puritan after a ‘detox’ weekend away (never mind the fact we drank more than a normal night down the Horse).
Africans have quite our prim, puritanical attitude towards extra - marital sex.
Bruckner described a sheriff on a Florida beach ordering him to cover his naked two-year-old daughter, as an example of the US's "problem with sex", which he described as "twisted puritanism" resulting from the alliance of "feminism and the Republican right". Dominique Strauss-Kahn will fly home to a France divided over his reputation
Espying a sinister pattern behind these events, Grose bemoans what she characterizes as a horrid resurgence of puritanism that has become a common attitude among young females and is somehow perverting even once-sensible feminists such as Ms. Klausner: Political Mavens
The attitude many people have toward abortion is part of what Moore calls a puritanical streak in the United States.
The Puritans had no more interest in astronomy or physics than in the fine points of Catholic theology.
If official policy destroyed Stuart Britain's important collections, disasters also came at a lower level as Puritan iconoclasts embarked on an orgy of destruction of religious art.
She might be a prurient woman of lustfulness, or she may be a prudish, puritanical girl. Spitzer's Whore Should Not Make a Nickel
In some communities, of which Lechford tells us New Haven was one, these unhouselled Puritans were allowed, if they so desired, to stand outside the meeting-house door at the time of public worship and catch what few words of the service they could. Sabbath in Puritan New England
To what degree this new puritanism is due to indoctrination or to the fear of retribution is a matter of speculation. Communist ChinaTime for Reappraisal
But here is what neither Papist nor Puritan, latitudinarian nor precisian, ever boggles or makes mouths at. Kenilworth
‘She was a moralist and puritan who would consider the topic of sex a taboo,’ he said.
There's also a more specific, a more local, reason for which our John Milton was susceptible to this profit-and-loss rhetoric of Calvinist puritan theology.
In so doing, he discloses, as a guide, a way to avoid the extremes of Puritan bibliolatry, without compromising the primary stature of the Bible.
She sets this change within the context of a wider intellectual shift from Puritan piety to the Enlightenment's faith in progress and the inherent goodness of man.
For this puritan economic ethic it was about getting the economic essentials right.
The religious intensity of Puritan settlers infused every facet of life in seventeenth-century New England, including criminality.
Our society has been moving toward both the laissez-faire capitalism and puritanical fundamentalist revivalism of the nineteenth century in recent years.
It is a Muslim society that challenges stereotypes of Muslim puritanism, narrowness, and intolerance.
But though the Puritans never could be called remiss in respect of making due provision for the necessities of this life, yet all was done with a view to the conditions of the life to come; and in the annals of the time we read more of the prayers and fasts, the choosing of ministers, and the promotion and practice of godliness in general, than we do of any temporal matters. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775
The dominant Whig Party appealed to Massachusetts, large Congregational church denomination, which had its roots in Puritanism.
Instead of creating Winthrop's vision of an ordered society, the Pilgrims actually invented the raucous, ultra-democratic New England town meeting — a system of governance, the Dartmouth historian Colin Galloway observes, that "displays more attributes of Algonkian government by consensus than of Puritan government by the divinely ordained. 1491: excerpts part 3
They adhered to an old-fashioned and somewhat puritanical morality , and criticized their friend Ingrid Bergman for destroying her film career by having an illegitimate child with Roberto Rossellini .
In fact it is difficult to imagine anyone more divorced from the spirit of the Jazz Age than the priggish, puritanical, non-smoking, non-drinking young Popper.
Even the most puritanical, old-style theorist, or the most modishly self-conscious, context-seeking musicologist will be hugely entertained, as well as enlightened, by this book.
Real Puritans, she opines in ‘Puritans and Prigs,’ attempted to shape society by faith and reason, in contrast to prigs who are content to announce their opinions and ‘puritanically’ damn all who disagree.
The same puritanical tendency has been revived by militant groups today, who exclude lax or nominal Muslims from their definition of the umma, the world-wide community of believers.

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