Ví dụ về puritan

• Once again the evidence is clear : explicitly puritan parishes were prepared not only to enlarge but also to decorate their parish churches.

• Once again, we should not perhaps put too much weight on the rantings of a single, unhinged puritan.

• For many puritans, the need for scripturally based government was so paramount that the category of ' things indifferent ' was often squeezed down to practically nothing.

• This statement fell like a bombshell into mainstream puritan discourse.

• Not illogically, the new puritans drew upon old ascetic ideals.

• It implies that puritan piety and traditional magical practices and beliefs could, with relative ease, be reconciled.

• Leading puritans actively brought antinomians to the attention of church authorities in an attempt to establish their own credibility in the eyes of those authorities.

• She argues from a 'puritan' pre-partition nationalist perspective and believes that women's liberation will only come after political liberation has been achieved.

• The fact is that activism in religion cannot be equated with puritan subversion.

• Radical tolerationists were not, therefore, premature advocates of the permissive society, and they rarely repudiated the puritan campaign for the reformation of manners.

• He had a driving ambition to succeed combined with a puritan's belief in the sanctity of unremitting toil.

• This was an argument which appealed deeply to the biblicist and primitivist cast of the puritan mind.

• In their fear of idolatry, puritans had descended instead into sacrilege.

• Thus, far from appearing as annoying busybodies or self-indulgent zealots, puritans on this issue took advantage of a rare opportunity to appear downright sensible.

• Furthermore, it is clear that puritans would act on religious issues with their less zealous brethren when the civic interest was at stake.