What are the Puritan beliefs?

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Can you please name as much info as possible.

Answer 1

Let me share what I know and learned from a good friend that I had that followed the Puritan theology and what I researched for your wonderful question.


-Puritan beliefs is a version of Calvinism. It asserts the basic sinfulness of humankind; but it also declares that by an eternal decree God has determined that some will be saved through the righteousness of Christ despite their sins.

--God, the individual, and community: According to Puritan belief, salvation or redemption was a personal matter between God and the Elect and did not require any institutional assistance.

-The Puritans expressed this in the notion of the Covenant of Grace, a contract that God had entered with the Elect by accepting the sacrifice of his son in redemption of the sins of humanity. Just as the Elect could count on God keeping his promise of redemption, they were bound to keep their part of the contract by following and emulating Christ. Based on this notion of a covenant, the Puritans strove to organize their community life on the model of covenants. Thus congregations, or churches, were conceived as voluntary associations of the Elect. Individuals were admitted to the church on the evidence of a personal conversion experience and the members of the church jointly elected their officials (pastors, teachers, elders, deacons).

The covenant thus had both a spiritual, even mystical, and a legal, or constitutive, dimension.

-They experience of being born again, in which the soul is regenerated by the Holy Spirit is indication that one is of the elect. The born-again experience was therefore central to Puritan spirituality. Much of Puritan preaching was concerned with it.

-Puritan spiritual life stressed self-discipline and introspection. The conviction of having been chosen by God fortified the Puritans to contend with wantonness in society and unfaithfulness in the church, and to endure the hardships involved in trying to create a Christian commonwealth in America.


- They hold to a textual, scriptural, worldview: The blueprint of this plan was the Bible, which offered compelling master narratives to the Puritan worldview in the books of Genesis and Exodus, the gospel of Christ's life and death, and the Revelation.

This providential view of Scripture was further corroborated by a typological (or allegorical) system of interpretation, which recognized innumerable parallels between the stories of the Old and the New Testament. In keeping with this textual view of the world, the Puritans sought to perceive in their own lives, both individually and collectively, the narrative and figurative patterns of biblical Scripture.

Humbly posted,

Devin Willis

Answer 2

We would do our own homework, if our schools provided us with textbooks. They don t, so until then we students are stuck using the Internet. What is the big deal anyway? It is the same as looking it up in the book as it is looking it up on the Internet. So, you can keep complaining, or donate some money to our schools for textbooks. Also, this is the 21st century, everything we learn is through technology now. The Internet is the main source we use now, why? Because we were born into the generation where if you didn t know something, out parents (you guys probably) would just say "google it", or "look it up." So don t start complaining now when it s the parents fault we use the Internet for every answer we need. And no I am not a bratty little 10 year old. I am a 16 year old sophomore, who has had the chance to skip 3 grades because I am so academically inclined. Everyone, have a nice night/day. I m getting back to doing my homework now! :)

Answer 3

That anything we take pleasure in -MUST be sinfull, bad & the work of the Devil- because life isn't ment to be enjoyed. -It's ment to be suffered through. -A pretty happy group those Puritans must've been, -don't you think??! :)

Answer 4

WEE dont share them thank you kind sir vice