They formed and identified with various religious groups advocating greater purity of worship and doctrine, as well as personal and corporate piety. Puritans adopted a covenant theology, and in that …

Nov 21, 2025 · Puritans believed that it was necessary to be in a covenant relationship with God in order to be redeemed from one’s sinful condition, that God had chosen to reveal salvation through …

Jan 12, 2021 · The Puritans were English Protestant Christians, primarily active in the 16th-18th centuries CE, who claimed the Anglican Church had not distanced itself sufficiently from Catholicism …

Jun 30, 2025 · Emerging in the context of Henry VIII’s English Reformation, the Puritans, a loosely knit community of English protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, believed that the Church of England …

Oct 29, 2009 · The Puritans were members of a religious reform movement known as Puritanism that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century. They believed the Church of England …

3 days ago · The Puritans were a group of English pastors and laypeople between the mid-1500s and the early 1700s. They sought to purge the Church of England of Roman Catholic influences and …

Mar 24, 2025 · The Puritans were a Protestant religious group that emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries in England, seeking to "purify" the Church of England from what they saw as Catholic …