Puritanism

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Calvinist movement Protestant tradition religious movement

Puritanism was a strict, reform-minded Protestant movement that emphasized moral rigor, biblical authority, and communal discipline, profoundly shaping early New England society and culture.

Aliases (20)

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Calvinist movement → Protestant tradition → religious movement →
advocates	congregational church governance → reform of the Church of England → strict church membership standards →
associatedWithDoctrine	priesthood of all believers → sola fide → sola scriptura → soli Deo gloria →
associatedWithEvent	English Civil War → Great Migration of Puritans → surface form: "Great Migration to New England" Half-Way Covenant controversy → Salem witch trials → Westminster Assembly →
coreBelief	biblical authority → covenant theology → importance of moral discipline → necessity of personal conversion → predestination → rejection of Catholic ritualism → simplicity of worship → total depravity of humankind →
declinedInCentury	18th century →
emergedInCentury	16th century →
emphasizes	Sabbath observance → communal discipline → family piety → moral rigor →
hasEthic	Protestant work ethic → ascetic lifestyle →
hasPractice	church discipline → close regulation of public morals → covenant church membership → family worship → long sermons → plain preaching →
influenced	American Protestantism → American concepts of covenant and contract → American literature → American political thought → American work ethic →
influencedBy	Reformation → surface form: "English Reformation" John Calvin → Calvinism → surface form: "Reformed theology"
inspiredFoundationOf	Harvard University → surface form: "Harvard College" Yale University → surface form: "Yale College"
keyFigure	Cotton Mather → Increase Mather → John Owen → John Winthrop → Richard Baxter → Thomas Hooker → William Ames → William Perkins →
legacyIn	Congregational churches → Presbyterian → surface form: "Presbyterian churches" Reformed denominations →
majorCenter	Massachusetts Bay Colony → New England → Plymouth Colony →
opposes	Anglican ceremonialism → episcopal church governance →
originatedIn	England →
religiousBranchOf	Protestantism →
shaped	New England culture → New England education → New England legal codes → New England town governance → early New England society →
viewOnChurchState	close relation between church and civil authority →
viewOnEducation	literacy for Bible reading → support for schools and colleges →

Referenced by (113)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Reformed Liturgy → associatedMovement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritan movement"

A Discourse of Conscience → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritan movement"

A Treatise of the Vocations or Callings of Men → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritan movement"

Book III: Polybius → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Bunhill Fields → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritans"

Essays to Do Good → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritan culture"

Howe family of Ipswich and Topsfield → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan New England society"

Of Communion with God → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Pearl → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan society"

The Glory of Christ → associatedWith → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

A Golden Chain → associatedWithMovement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Elizabethan Puritanism"

Salem witch trials → broaderContext → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan New England society"

Mayflower Compact → createdBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Separatist Puritans"

Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony → culturalAffiliation → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan New England"

Benjamin Franklin’s parents → culturalContext → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritan society"

Elizabeth Parris → culture → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritan society"

Richard Baxter → denomination → Puritanism →

Congregationalism → developedFrom → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

New England Way → developedFrom → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Connecticut Colony → foundedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

Massachusetts Bay Colony → foundedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

Massachusetts Bay Company → foundedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

New England Colonies → foundedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

New Haven, Connecticut → founders → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

Oldtown Folks → hasCulturalContext → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritan heritage"

Poganuc People → hasTheme → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Calvinism"

A Call from Heaven → historicalContext → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell → ideology → Puritanism →

A Golden Chain → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Calvinism → influenced → Puritanism →

English Separatist movement → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Geneva Bible → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Heinrich Bullinger → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Institutes of the Christian Religion → influenced → Puritanism →

Jehan Cauvin → influenced → Puritanism →

John Calvin → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

Mather family → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Theodore Beza → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

William Perkins → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

William Perkins → influenced → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritans"

A Christian Directory → influencedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Anne Hutchinson → influencedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan covenant theology"

English Separatist movement → influencedBy → Puritanism →

Great Awakening → influencedBy → Puritanism →

Jonathan Edwards → influencedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan theology"

New England clergy → influencedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

The Minister's Wooing → influencedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritan culture"

The Reformed Pastor → influencedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

American civil religion → linkedTo → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan covenant theology"

A Call from Heaven → literaryMovement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan plain style"

Magnalia Christi Americana → mainSubject → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Richard Mather → memberOf → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritans"

Cotton Mather → movement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Giles Corey → movement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan New England"

Increase Mather → movement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

John Cotton → movement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan movement"

John Milton → movement → Puritanism →

Oliver Cromwell → movement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan movement"

Richard Baxter → movement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Samuel Mather → movement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Samuel Parris → movement → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

William Ames → movement → Puritanism →

High Commission → opposedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritans"

High Commission Court → opposedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritans"

Laudian religious reforms → opposedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritans"

Personal Rule (1629–1640) → opposedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritans in England"

William Laud → opposedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

Eleven Years' Tyranny → oppositionGroup → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritans"

Mayflower landing at Plymouth → passengers → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Separatist Puritans"

Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits → relatedTo → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Anne Hutchinson → religion → Puritanism →

Cotton Mather → religion → Puritanism →

Maria Cotton Mather → religion → Puritanism →

subject surface form: "Cotton Mather"

Eleazar Mather → religion → Puritanism →

Giles Corey → religion → Puritanism →

John Hampden → religion → Puritanism →

John Mason → religion → Puritanism →

Mary Easty → religion → Puritanism →

Mercy Dudley → religion → Puritanism →

New England Confederation → religion → Puritanism →

Oceanus Hopkins → religion → Puritanism →

Province of New England → religion → Puritanism →

Roger Williams → religion → Puritanism →

Sarah Dudley → religion → Puritanism →

Susannah Martin → religion → Puritanism →

Arthur Dimmesdale → religiousAffiliation → Puritanism →

Elizabeth Parris → religiousAffiliation → Puritanism →

Great Migration of Puritans → religiousAffiliation → Puritanism →

Increase → religiousAssociation → Puritanism →

Hester Prynne → religiousContext → Puritanism →

Salem witch trials → religiousContext → Puritanism →

The Art of Prophesying → religiousMovement → Puritanism →

William Brewster → religiousMovement → Puritanism →

William Perkins → religiousMovement → Puritanism →

A Treatise of the Vocations or Callings of Men → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

Book II: Ecclesiarum Clypei → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

Essays to Do Good → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

John Owen → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

Maria Cotton → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

New England clergy → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

The Order of the Gospel → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

The Reformed Pastor → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

Winthrop family → religiousTradition → Puritanism →

Wonders of the Invisible World → subject → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "New England Puritanism"

Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers → theologicalMovement → Puritanism →

A Golden Chain → theologicalTradition → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "Puritan theology"

The Doctrine of the Saints’ Perseverance Explained and Confirmed → theologicalTradition → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritanism"

Geneva Bible → usedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"

Wait → usedBy → Puritanism →

this entity surface form: "English Puritans"