Horse Racing is said to be the sport of kings. The sport of slinging mud has, however, a wider following. Pillorying the Puritans, in particular, has long been a popular pastime both sides of the Atlantic, and most people’s image of Puritanism still has on it much disfiguring dirt that needs to be scraped off. [...]
Puritans & Puritanism
"The foregoing celebration of Puritan greatness may leave some readers skeptical. It is, however, as was hinted earlier, wholly in line with the major reassessment of Puritanism that has taken place in historical scholarship. Fifty years ago the academic study of Puritanism went over a watershed with the discovery that there was such a thing as Puritan culture, and a rich culture at that...Puritanism was at heart a spiritual movement, passionately concerned with God and godliness." ~ J.I. Packer, Why We Need the Puritans
The Puritans and Revival Christianity by Iain Murray
Following as it did so closely upon the Reformation it is not surprising that the Puritan movement in England believed so firmly in revivals of religion as the great means by which the Church advances in the world. For the Reformation was itself the greatest revival since Pentecost — a spring-time of new life for [...]
The Puritan Approach to Worship by J.I. Packer
It is sometimes said that evangelicals are not interested in worship. If by worship one means the technicalities of liturgical study, this may be true. But I do not suppose that I am the only evangelical who finds that the actual exercise of worship, the deliberate lifting of one’s eyes from man and his mistakes [...]
The Pilgrims and Puritans – Total Reformation for the Glory of God by Samuel T. Logan, Jr.
What’s the difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans? Are they all the same folks? When did the two groups first form? And why did they emerge as distinct religious groups? Excellent questions, every one! In answering all of the above questions, the year 1517 was especially crucial. Most know one reason for this-in October [...]
The Example of the English Puritans by Erroll Hulse
Why should Christians today be interested in the English Puritans? The answer to that is that the English Puritans have left to the Christian Church a most valuable library of expository books. In recent years there has been a rediscovery of this literary heritage. Who were the English Puritans? When the 16th-century Reformation took place [...]
The Character of an Old English Puritan, or Non-Conformist by John Geree
The Old English Puritan was such an one, that honored God above all, and under God gave every one his due. His first care was to serve God, and therein he did not what was good in his own, but in God’s sight, making the word of God the rule of his worship. He highly [...]
Puritanism Essay by Don Kistler, Dr.
In many of the Puritan portraits shown on our website, it says that many of these men were suspended from their ministry, and/or excommunicated for ‘non-conformity.’ To most Christians today, the matter of conformity and non-conformity are at least unknown, and at best considered to be irrelevant. But the story of the Protestant faith in [...]
New Testiment Puritanism by Benjiman B. Warfield
2 Cor. 6:11-7:1. – ‘Our mouth is open unto you, 0 Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections. Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged. Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what [...]
Is the Puritan Movement Dead-Ended? by Erroll Hulse
In a volume called ’77 Notts Untied’ Michael Smout draws attention to the absence of evangelical Anglican theologians. The National Evangelical Anglican Congress proved to be a very lightweight affair as far as theology was concerned. Their most accomplished theologian was little to the fore. Michael Smout describes J. I. Packer as the ‘lost leader [...]
In Defence of the Puritans by Martin Brow
In the course of my studies towards ordination in the Church of England I have, on a number of occasions, been challenged by others about my persistent reading of Puritan Theology. Over the years I have spent at college (five of them now), there has been a growing desire within me to give an answer [...]
The Puritan Approach to Worship by J. I. Packer
It is sometimes said that evangelicals are not interested in worship. If by worship one means the technicalities of liturgical study, this may be true. But I do not suppose that I am the only evangelical who finds that the actual exercise of worship, the deliberate lifting of one’s eyes from man and his mistakes [...]
