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May – King Charles revives medieval forest laws to raise funds from fines. [1] 6 August – William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. [5] St Paul's, Covent Garden, designed by Inigo Jones in 1631 overlooking his piazza, opened to worship, the first wholly new church built in London since the English Reformation.
- Puritans: A Definition
- The Church of England
- Puritans in New England
- Differences Between Pilgrims and Puritans
- Who Were The Puritans?
- Puritanism in American Life
The roots of Puritanism are to be found in the beginnings of the English Reformation. The name “Puritans” (they were sometimes called “precisionists”) was a term of contempt assigned to the movement by its enemies. Although the epithet first emerged in the 1560s, the movement began in the 1530s, when King Henry VIII repudiated papal authority and t...
Through the reigns of the Protestant King Edward VI (1547-1553), who introduced the first vernacular prayer book, and the Catholic Mary I (1553-1558), who sent some dissenting clergymen to their deaths and others into exile, the Puritan movement–whether tolerated or suppressed–continued to grow. Some Puritans favored a presbyterian form of church o...
In the early decades of the 17th century, some groups of worshipers began to separate themselves from the main body of their local parish church where preaching was inadequate and to engage an energetic “lecturer,” typically a young man with a fresh Cambridge degree, who was a lively speaker and steeped in reform theology. Some congregations went f...
The main difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans is that the Puritans did not consider themselves separatists. They called themselves “nonseparating congregationalists,” by which they meant that they had not repudiated the Church of England as a false church. But in practice they acted–from the point of view of Episcopalians and even Presb...
The Puritan migration was overwhelmingly a migration of families (unlike other migrations to early America, which were composed largely of young unattached men). The literacy rate was high, and the intensity of devotional life, as recorded in the many surviving diaries, sermon notes, poems and letters, was seldom to be matched in American life. The...
Puritanism gave Americans a sense of history as a progressive drama under the direction of God, in which they played a role akin to, if not prophetically aligned with, that of the Old Testament Jews as a new chosen people. Perhaps most important, as Max Weber profoundly understood, was the strength of Puritanism as a way of coping with the contradi...
October 21 – The Great Thunderstorm in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, England: probable ball lightning strikes the parish church, killing 4 and injuring about 60. November 21 – The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is summoned to Glasgow, by King Charles I.
The Bishops’ Wars (1639–40) brought an end to the tranquillity of the 1630s. Charles had to meet rebellion with force, and force required money from Parliament. He genuinely believed that he would be supported against the rebels, failing to comprehend the profound hostility that Laud’s innovations had created in England.
22nd. Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. - 1630s in the British Empire (13 C) / 1630s disestablishments in England (3 C) 1630s establishments in England (10 C, 3 P) 0–9. 1630 in England (2 C) 1631 in England (3 C, 1 P) 1632 in England (2 C, 3 P) 1633 in England (2 C, 1 P)
Feb 17, 2011 · Overview: Civil War and Revolution, 1603 - 1714. By Professor Mark Stoyle. Last updated 2011-02-17. The Stuart dynasty spanned one of the most tumultuous periods in British history - years of...
During the 1620s and 1630s, the conflict escalated to the point where the state church prohibited Puritan ministers from preaching. In the Church’s view, Puritans represented a national security threat because their demands for cultural, social, and religious reforms undermined the king’s authority.
