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  • It has promoted Puritan theology and helped resurrect the ideas of Jonathan Edwards. Alister McGrath refers to the "revival in Puritan spirituality that...
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  • Dawson Publishing Co. p. 42. "Puritan – 1908" (PDF). Weld County Government. Retrieved March 29, 2020. The Colorado Magazine. State Historical Society of...
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    John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in Colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years...
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  • Thumbnail for Young Goodman Brown
    takes place in 17th-century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity...
    14 KB (1,937 words) - 08:38, 13 August 2023
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    Thomas Hooker (category 17th-century New England Puritan ministers)
    Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an...
    24 KB (2,724 words) - 02:25, 10 October 2024
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    already a favorite with the readers of this magazine for his stories of Solomon Kane, the dour English Puritan and redresser of wrongs". Solomon Kane was...
    31 KB (3,084 words) - 23:13, 29 July 2024
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    Boston (redirect from Puritan City)
    in the country. Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers. The city was named after Boston, Lincolnshire, England. During...
    221 KB (18,750 words) - 00:17, 1 November 2024
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    Cotton Mather (category 17th-century New England Puritan ministers)
    Cotton Mather FRS (/ˈmæðər/; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on...
    83 KB (10,515 words) - 12:27, 31 October 2024
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    4-or-5-foot-long (1.2 or 1.5 m) cord. In 1660, an official pronouncement by Puritan officials in Bristol to forbid cock throwing (as well as cat and dog tossing)...
    5 KB (519 words) - 08:04, 22 February 2024
  • 2005, the library now has a reference room, known as the Robert Sheehan Puritan and Research Centre, named in honour of the late Robert J. Sheehan (1951–97)...
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    Charles Chauncy (category 17th-century English Puritan ministers)
    Northamptonshire. At both parishes he faced disciplinary procedures for his Puritan views which included opposition to communion rails. He emigrated to America...
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    Catholic "idolatry", and during the English Civil War was frowned on by the Puritan authorities. Nevertheless, the tradition of eating Christmas pie in December...
    17 KB (1,832 words) - 09:59, 13 February 2024
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    Harvard University. Opened in 1970, it is named after Increase Mather, a Puritan in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who served as President of Harvard University...
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    applied to Puritan roundheads during the English Civil War. It came to include residents of colonial New England, who were mostly Puritans in support...
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    Browne, Henry Barrowe, and John Greenwood. In the United Kingdom, the Puritan Reformation of the Church of England laid the foundation for these churches...
    45 KB (5,316 words) - 20:32, 28 October 2024
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    Robert Johnson (archdeacon of Leicester) (category 16th-century English Puritan ministers)
    and the founder of both Oakham School and Uppingham School. He was the Puritan rector of North Luffenham, Rutland, for 51 years, from 1574 until his death...
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    is today Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Saybrook was founded by a group of Puritan noblemen as a potential political refuge from the personal rule of Charles...
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    Puritan Sabbatarianism or Reformed Sabbatarianism, often just Sabbatarianism, is observance of Sabbath in Christianity that is typically characterised...
    14 KB (1,570 words) - 15:25, 25 July 2024
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    in 1600 to 1602. During his time as Lecturer, he held somewhat moderate Puritan views, accepting the set forms of prayer as well as both vocal and instrumental...
    11 KB (1,259 words) - 01:07, 27 August 2024
  • Sam Katzman (redirect from Puritan Pictures)
    films through his own company, Victory Pictures. In 1935 Katzman founded Puritan Pictures, a film distribution group, their first film being Suicide Squad...
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