Protestants are usually tardy to the party ... and limited government. First, in Puritan New England, politics was predicated on unity and homogeneity, not division and difference.

Puritans wanted the English Protestant Reformation to go further. They wished to rid the Church of England of “popish” – that is, Catholic – elements like bishops and kneeling at services.

Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans were English Protestants who believed that the reforms of the Church of England did not go far enough. In their view, the liturgy was still too Catholic.

This, too, was reminiscent of the Puritan attitude, three centuries earlier, toward all other Protestants." Some may find this analogy inappropriate or strained, as the differences between the ...

T he Puritans were the Protestant religious movement in England throughout the 17 th century that sought to “purify” the Church of England from its Roman Catholic influences. They wanted to ...

The word Puritan comes from ‘purity’ or ‘purify’. These were extreme Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England by returning to the simple and uncomplicated worship and way of ...