puritanism

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By then, Deacon Chapin was dead, although Puritanism wasn’t yet.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

He might have vanished into Boston history were it not for the British, who spectacularly and catastrophically failed to understand what made Massachusetts citizens, forged by an independent version of Puritanism, tick.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022

Bob found the thread connecting these giants of America’s tumultuous, formative years “in their pluralism, in their liberation from Puritanism, in their respect for mind.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2020

Nor were his counterparts in the New World, where Puritanism found space to thrive.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

It was easier to associate resistance to Puritanism with the Catholic cause than aggression on the Catholic Powers in Germany.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron