PURITANISM AND GOVERNMENT

DEFINITION OF PURITANISM

• 16th century religious conservatives
• Wanted to purify the Church of England

PURITAN BELIEFS

• Everyone is born sinful
• Jesus died for chosen few
• Gods grace is freely given
• Preservance of the Saints
• Predestination

PREDESTINATION

• Belief that God knows your fate already
• Your path is chosen
• You have no control over what happens

VIEW ON OTHER RELIGIONS

• There is no acceptance
• Anyone that didn't follow their beliefs was wrong
• Non believers were sometimes killed

WHERE THEY CAME FROM

• They came from England
• Wanted to purify church
• Wanted to practice their religion freely

MODERN PROBLEMS

• Seperation of church and state today
• People believe they can change where they go
• Modern lifestyle is too drastically different
• People change the way we live all the time
• Puritans killed people who didnt believe what they did

THEOCRACY

• A government that includes a church
• This allowed the church to control prosecutions
• Religious beliefs became law

BIG 3

• Puritanism is a hard religion to follow
• They have no tolerance
• Predestination shapes their lives

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan
• http://thehistoricpresent.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/why-the-puritans-persecu...