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How did the puritan come to be?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

This religious group arose as a distinct separately identifiable offshoot of the Church of England in the 1530's. Originally they started out without a specific ideology or definition of church, but a majority who called themselves Puritan were actually Calvinists. They believed that the English Reformation had not gone far enough in reforming the doctrines and structure of the church; Therefore they set about in the purification of the Church and hence 'Puritan'.

By the Reign of James I The puritan movement has advanced so far as to demand that the King force reformations on the Church. He rejected most of the proposals which included the removal of Bishops in the Church. The only significant one he kept was the creation of the revised bible which we now know as the "King James Version".

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