Movement arising within the Church of England in the latter part of the 16th century that sought to purify, or reform, that church and establish a middle course between Roman Catholicism and the ideas of the Protestant reformers.
Puritanism in New England: Brief Definitions ... For a much more extensive description than appears on this brief page, see the works listed in the Selected Bibliography on ...
he Puritan movement was a broad trend toward a militant, biblically based Calvinistic Protestantism -- with emphasis upon the "purification" of church and society of the remnants ...
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