Were English Puritans Calvanists?

[Ian Gentles]

Boy i got loads of their works, and its always said they were Calvanists but much of their writing dosent reflect this, and i have read a lot!!! Was their a difference between Calvanists and Puritans and what was it?

[Ian Gentles]

Maybe this isnt folks subject it was mine, Hysterical Theology, oups mean Historical Theology. Maybe it would be easier for American friends to discuss theology of American Puritans?

[Jamie Wayne]

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan

A Puritan of 16th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century) and 17th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century) England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England) was any person seeking "purity" of worship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worship) and doctrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine), especially the parties that rejected the Reformation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformation) of the Church of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England). and those who justified separation from the Church of England following the Elizabethan Religious Settlement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_Religious_Settlement) are commonly called "Puritans" by historians and critics. Later groups are called "puritan", not necessarily favorably, by comparison to these low church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_church) Anglicans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism#Reformation) and Calvinistic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism) Non-conformists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformism).

[Ian Gentles]

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan

A Puritan of 16th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century) and 17th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century) England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England) was any person seeking "purity" of worship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worship) and doctrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine), especially the parties that rejected the Reformation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformation) of the Church of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England). and those who justified separation from the Church of England following the Elizabethan Religious Settlement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_Religious_Settlement) are commonly called "Puritans" by historians and critics. Later groups are called "puritan", not necessarily favorably, by comparison to these low church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_church) Anglicans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism#Reformation) and Calvinistic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism) Non-conformists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformism).


Ya got it :)

[Jamie Wayne]

The single theological (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theological) momentum most consistently self-centered by the term "Puritan" was Reformed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed) or Calvinist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism) and led to the founding of the Presbyterian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian), Baptist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist), and Congregationalist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregational_church) churches;

[Ian Gentles]

Scots formed presbyterian church, we wouldent have state and and church, esp king as head of church. They covenanted together in the great national covenant to resist, terrible times followed, many Scots were put to death, battles occured, this we call "The Bloody Season" Samual Rutherford wrote his excellend "Lex Rex" against divine right of kings. Church worshiped in wild country in secret conventicles. We call those good people, "Covenanters"!