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10 hours ago · “The Puritans,” we believe, could have had no appreciation of earthly beauty, let alone of sensual pleasure, because they saw this world darkly through the lens of their corrosive sense of universal sin and therefore lived only to pursue the radiance of the afterlife.
10 hours ago · Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1657. Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599 – September 3, 1658) was an English military leader and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled England, Scotland, and Ireland as Lord Protector from December 16, 1653 until his death almost five years ...
10 hours ago · The Puritans got their start inside the Church of England, and their goal was to cleanse the church of all traces of Catholicism–the ceremony, the fancy clothes, the incense, the stained glass, the bishops, and pretty much anything else that wasn’t mentioned in the Bible. And since dancing and Maypoles and archery hadn’t been mentioned–
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1 day ago · t. e. Protestant theology refers to the doctrines held by various Protestant traditions, which share some things in common but differ in others. In general, Protestant theology, as a subset of Christian theology, holds to faith in the Christian Bible, the Holy Trinity, salvation, sanctification, charity, evangelism, and the four last things .
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10 hours ago · Sectarian violence and, many times, civil war seem always to follow the overthrow of a dictator, when the lid is suddenly taken off the pressure cooker. Democracy, which in its perfect form respects dissent, engenders division. Puritans despised Pilgrims, as some Protestants do Catholics, and Gentiles Jews (and vice versa).
