Concept

Puritans

Overview

subclass of English Reformed Protestants

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Puritans

• Francis Bacon
• Thomas Carlyle
• John Locke
• George Santayana
• Max Weber
• Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Thomas Hobbes
• Hypatia
• Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
• David Hume
• The Age of Reason
• William Ames
• Jens Zimmermann (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Simon & Schuster
• Globe Pequot Publishing Group
• God in Christianity
• Matthew Arnold
• Adam and Eve
• G. K. Chesterton
• Glorious Revolution
• Arminianism
• Hedonism
• Great Britain
• Greenwood Publishing Group
• Correlation
• John Calvin
• Jesuits
• Last Judgment
• John Milton
• Separation of church and state
• John Amos Comenius
• Biblical inspiration
• Pietism
• Harvard University
• Modernity
• Doctrine
• Caribbean

Opposing perspectives

• Erasmus
• Massachusetts
• James VI and I
• First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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