Diapositiva 1

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PURITANISM
English Puritanism began as a reform movement in
the early years of Queen Elizabeths reign.
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• Puritans wanted to purify their national
  church by eliminating every shred of Catholic
  influence. In the 17th century lots of them
  emigrated to the New World, where they sought to
  found a holy Commonwealth in New England.
  Puritanism remained the dominant cultural force
  in that area into the 19th century.

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• In Puritanism we find a lot of variety of
  beliefs
• they rejected the power of official Church
  authorities except that of the Bible the pure
  word of God.
• puritans believed that the voice of God spoke in
  each mans individual conscience and that no
  intermediary should interfere.

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• they claimed sobriety of vestments worn by priest
  in virtue of austere life.
• they began to consider any sort of entertainment
  as a vanity which distracted people from
  spiritual dimension.

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• After James I became king of England in 1603,
  Puritan leaders asked him to grant several
  reforms but he rejected most of their proposals.
• Puritanism,gained much popular support early
  in the 17th century. The government and the
  church hierarchy, however, became increasingly
  repressive, causing many Puritans to emigrate.

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• The puritans who remained formed a powerful
  element within the parliamentarian party that
  defeated Charles I in the English Civil War.

After that
Puritans remained dominant in England until 1660,
but they quarreled among themselves and proved
even more intolerant than the old hierarchy.