Puritanism was a reform movement that originally sought to “purify” the Church of England after the English Reformation. Eventually Puritanism focused on purification of both individuals and society through the reform of church and state according to biblical principles. The Puritans held to a covenantal theology and the conviction that Scripture was authoritative for personal behavior and church organization (Stanley J. Grenz, David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling. Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms).
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