Puritan - Beliefs

Beliefs

Calvinism
John Calvin
Background
  • Christianity
  • St. Augustine
  • The Reformation
  • Five Solas
  • Synod of Dort
Theology
  • Five Points (TULIP)
  • Covenant theology
  • Regulative principle
Documents
  • Calvin's Institutes
  • Geneva Bible
  • Three Forms of Unity
  • Westminster Standards
Influences
  • Martin Bucer
  • Peter Martyr Vermigli
  • Heinrich Bullinger
  • John Calvin
  • John Knox
  • Theodore Beza
  • Francis Turretin
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Charles Hodge
Churches
  • Continental Reformed
  • Presbyterian
  • Congregationalist
  • Reformed Baptist
  • Low church Anglican
Peoples
  • Afrikaners
  • Huguenots
  • Pilgrims
  • Puritans
  • Scots
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The idea of personal Biblical interpretation, while central to Puritan beliefs, was shared with most Protestants in general. Puritans sought both individual and corporate conformity to the teaching of the Bible, with moral purity pursued both down to the smallest detail as well as ecclesiastical purity to the highest level. They believed that man existed for the glory of God; that his first concern in life was to do God's will and so to receive future happiness.

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