puritanism

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By then, Deacon Chapin was dead, although Puritanism wasn’t yet.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

He might have vanished into Boston history were it not for the British, who spectacularly and catastrophically failed to understand what made Massachusetts citizens, forged by an independent version of Puritanism, tick.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022

Nor were his counterparts in the New World, where Puritanism found space to thrive.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

He strongly supported the “high church” faction of the Anglican church just as Puritanism among the common people was growing, and he began to openly encroach on parliamentary authority.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Oliver Cromwell, the man of his age, and whose impartial biography is yet unwritten, was the soul of old Puritanism, and the warrior-apostle of religious toleration.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.