It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.

Puritan theology, with God as Creator and the laws of nature as God's " second causes " encouraged such experimentation.

Puritan theology was based on the Calvinist notion that not everyone would be saved ; there was only a specific number of the elect who would avoid damnation, and this was based sheerly on God's predetermined will and not on any action you could perform in this life.

He contends that Paine draws on the Puritan tradition in which " theology was wedded to politics and politics to the progress of the kingdom of God ".

Edwards's theological work is broad in scope, but he is often associated with Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage.

James Shapiro interprets her theory both in terms of the cultural tensions of her historical milieu, and as consequential on an intellectual and emotional crisis that unfolded as she both broke with her Puritan upbringing and developed a deep confidential relationship with a fellow lodger, Alexander MacWhorter, a young theology graduate from Yale, which was subsequently interrupted by her brother.

He is chiefly remembered for reprinting much rare Elizabethan literature, a work which he undertook because of his interest in Puritan theology.

The churches of New England, with roots in Puritan Calvinism, tended to begin to reject their Calvinist roots, accepting Wesley's expression of Arminianism, or overthrowing their historical doctrine entirely to depart into Socinianism or liberal theology.

Its Puritan theology was in any case unwelcome to the ecclesiastical authorities led by the Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud.

In his theology, Stoddard contradicted nearly every standard belief of his Puritan colleagues.

Puritan theology at the time stressed a strict methodology in salvation.

The colony's Puritan leaders, whose own religion was born of dissent from mainstream Church of England, generally worked for reconciliation with members who questioned matters of Puritan theology but responded much more harshly to outright rejection of Puritanism.

* William Ames, Puritan who eventually left England to become professor of theology at Franeker

Its immediate occasion was the disputation at Heidelberg ( 1568 ) for the doctorate of theology by George Withers, an English Puritan ( subsequently Archdeacon of Colchester ), silenced ( 1565 ) at Bury St Edmunds by Archbishop Parker.

The Protestant work ethic ( or the Puritan work ethic ) is a concept in theology, sociology, economics and history which emphasizes hard work, frugality and prosperity as a display of a person's salvation in the Christian faith.

Many Reformed denominations have crafted official statements rejecting theonomy as a heresy, but others tolerate some forms of it on the grounds that as a Biblical theology it can appeal to historical and doctrinal precedent within the Puritan and Reformed tradition.

Reconstructionists claim to be continuing Reformed theology, especially in its Puritan form.

Therefore, they believed that reason could allow for judging the private revelations of Puritan theology and the proper investigation of the rituals and liturgy of the Established Church.

Pynchon was one of Massachusetts ' wealthiest and most important men, and in his book — which refuted Puritan theology by claiming that obedience, rather than punishment and suffering, was the price of atonement — was immediately burned on the Boston Common, ( only 4 copies survived ,) and soon after became the New World's first-ever banned book.

He was called " The Shakespeare of the Puritans " by Robert Southey ; a Calvinist in theology, he is not accurately described as a Puritan.

The designation " Puritan " is often used in the sense that hedonism and puritanism are antonyms.

The term " Puritan " in the sense of this article was not coined until the 1560s, when it appears as a term of abuse for those who found the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559 inadequate.

Just attending services led by reformers such as Cotton and Wheelwright was not sufficient for many Puritan worshipers, who wanted more avenues for expressing their sense of religious rebirth.

*" The Puritan communities of New England were thoroughly democratic, and this proves that democracy, in the sense of government by the consent of the majority, is not at all inseparable from liberty, in the sense of tolerance of dissent ; and may be accompanied by intransigent doctrinairism and persecutions of non-conformism.

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

For full membership, the Puritan church insisted not only that its congregants lead godly lives and exhibit a clear understanding of the main tenets of their Christian faith, but they also must demonstrate that they had experienced true evidence of the workings of God ’ s grace in their souls.

Thus Puritan leaders began assuring members that if they began doing well financially in their businesses, this would be one unofficial sign they had God's approval and were among the saved – but only if they used the fruits of their labor well.

He incurred the hostility of the Puritan theocracy in Boston, casting the only dissenting vote among ministers against the expulsion of Roger Williams.

John Norton, founding pastor of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meetinghouse in Massachusetts.

Typically the first Puritan settlers in New England established their settlements in what only a short time earlier had been occupied by Indians who had perished from disease.

A radical Puritan in a time of religious conflict, Cherke held his post for only a short time before being replaced by a Thomas Crooke in 1580.

In the 1980s and 1990s Koreans became noted not only for starting small businesses such as dry cleaners or convenience stores, but also for diligently planting churches, with the same fervor as the early Puritan fathers who came to New England.

The Puritan community in 17th-century North America looked down upon art, because they believed it drew the faithful away from God, and if away from God, then it could only lead to the devil.

Nearly all layers of government and church life ( except in Rhode Island ) remained " Puritan ", and only a few of the so-called " upper crust " joined the British government-sponsored Anglican church.

An order by Queen Elizabeth I that it be demolished and an attempt at demolition during the Puritan times were both unsuccessful: the order was ignored and only a few stones were removed on the two occasions.

A major difference between the New Haven and Connecticut colonies was that the Connecticut permitted other churches to operate on the basis of " sober dissent " while the New Haven Colony only permitted the Puritan church to exist.

Old Ship Church is the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in New England.

Saltonstall was the only minister to serve as governor of Connecticut, and he belies the common misconception that Puritan clergy could not hold political office.

Other attempts at colonization took place throughout the 1620s, but expansion of English settlements only began on a large scale with the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 and the arrival of the first large group of Puritan settlers in 1630.

Davenport was a lifelong advocate of the rigorous Puritan standards for church membership and for the strict qualifications for infant baptism, which he believed should be administered only to the children of full church members.

Not only had he eloquently reached agreements on many of the Puritan demands, he also avoided any major arguments.

He publicly preached against the Trinity and the Congregationalist ( those holding the Puritan / Calvinist ideals that only the elect receive salvation ) churches split in half.

Puritans held beliefs of predestination and that only " God's elect " will be saved when the day of judgement comes, and this weeding out process of finding the saved versus not saved was a large part of Puritan life.

While " Puritanism prepared the ground for a marital love ideology by prescribing love in marriage ", only from the eighteenth century has " romantic love ideology resolved the Puritan antagonism between passion and reason " in a marital context.

Full membership in the tax-supported Puritan church required an account of a conversion experience, and only persons in full membership could have their own children baptized.