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Puritan
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Puritan (in the late 16th and 17th centuries)
any of the more extreme English Protestants, most of whom were Calvinists, who wished to purify the Church of England of most of its ceremony and other aspects that they deemed to be Catholic


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On the one hand, the term describes a moderate and relatively mainstream movement toward more elaborate expressions of Protestant piety in art, architecture, and worship, a "spirit of renewal running through the Stuart Church" (91) that more or less comfortably accommodated all but the "radical wing" (104) of the Puritan party.
Barker, after all, stressed that Milton, while indebted to the ideology of Puritanism, belonged to no one Puritan party since he believed that none offered a wholly satisfactory program.
Barker, after all, stressed that Milton, while indebted to the ideology of Puritanism, belonged to no one Puritan party since he believed that none offered a wholly satisfactory program.
 
 
 
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