Puritans were the English Protestants who wanted to 'purify' the English Church from Roman Catholic elements. Puritanism at first attacked 'popish'(R Catholic) practices, such as ornaments, and organ music. Later they attacked the authority of the bishops. They made attempts to change Anglican dogma and ritual.Later in the mid 17th century predestination became the fundamental article of their belief.
To be puritanism is to be a group of English Protests that form in the 16th century to bring religious reform.
Puritanism spawned several different denominations as outgrowths and detractors, Baptist were one of these.
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No one person was responsible for the founding of Puritanism. The puritans began in the early 17th century as an offshoot of Swiss Calvinism.
Yes, Puritanism is capitalized because it refers to a specific religious movement and ideology that originated in 16th-century England.
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John Calvin?
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The term "puritanism" has two particularly distinct meanings. First, capitalized as "Puritanism", it denotes that group of English Protestants who dissented from the established English Church in the Colonial Period. Second, as "puritanism", it denotes any attitude or outlook that is very strictly religious while considering bodily pleasures and joys to be unlawful and/or sinful.
Mostly the people there were Puritans and Quakers who were the pilgrims from Europe. There was some religious freedom though.
Puritanism.
The correct spelling is Puritanism.