The Puritan, an 1887 statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, in Springfield, Massachusetts
Background
Christianity
Protestantism
Reformation
English Reformation
Calvinism
Anglicanism
Arminianism
Arminianism in the Church of England
English Dissenters
Independents
Nonconformism
English Presbyterianism
Ecclesiastical separatism
17th-century denominations in England
Crucial themes
Definitions of Puritanism
Impropriation
Puritan Sabbatarianism
Millennialism
Puritan choir
Puritan work ethic
Merton thesis
History
History under Queen Elizabeth I
History under King James I
History under King Charles I
Cromwellian era and after
History in North America
Confessions
Westminster Confession of Faith
Savoy Declaration
Cambridge Platform
England
Scrooby Congregation
Trial of Archbishop Laud
Marian exiles
Vestments controversy
Martin Marprelate
Millenary Petition
Grand Remonstrance
English Civil War
English Restoration
Act of Uniformity 1662
Great Ejection
Elizabethan Religious Settlement
America
Providence Island Company
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Salem witch trials
Immigration to New England
Culture in New England
Christmas prohibition
Praying town
Half-Way Covenant
American exceptionalism
Elsewhere
Troubles at Frankfurt
Notable individuals
Peter Bulkley
John Bunyan
William Bradford
Anne Bradstreet
John Cotton
Oliver Cromwell
John Endecott
Jonathan Edwards
Anne Hutchinson
Cotton Mather
Increase Mather
James Noyes
Thomas Parker
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
Robert Woodford
Works
The Godly Man's Picture
The Pilgrim's Progress
Paradise Lost
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Continuing movements
Congregational churches (U.S.)
other Reformed churches
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The history of the Puritans can be traced back to the first Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI, the formation of an identifiable Puritan movement in the 1560s and ends in a decline in the mid-18th century. The status of the Puritans as a religious group in England changed frequently as a result of both political shifts in their relationship to the state and the Church of England, and of changing views of Puritans. It is not typically summarised as a whole, since the political events of the 1640s, sometimes called the Puritan Revolution, have complex roots, not any more than the term "Puritan" can be given a useful and precise definition outside the particular historical context. The Puritan's main purpose was to purify the Church of England and to make England a more Christian country.
History of the Puritans under Elizabeth I, 1558–1603
History of the Puritans under James I, 1603–1625
History of the Puritans under Charles I, 1625–1649
History of the Puritans from 1649
History of the Puritans in North America
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