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Morris, John W. (2011). The Historic Church: An Orthodox View of Christian History. Author House. p.438. Aurangzeb’s religious policies are hotly debated amongst historians. Some, like Jadunath Sarkar, consider him to have been an orthodox bigot, while others, like Shibli Naumani, argue that his motives were political rather than religious. The former for example, claims in his book, A Short History of Aurangzeb , that the late Mughal ruler wanted to establish ‘Dar-ul-Islam’, a complete Islamic state in India in which all dissenters were to be executed. On the other hand, Naumani, in his book, Aurangzeb Alamgir Par Ek Nazar , writes that “Aurangzeb’s zeal for Islam was that of a politician rather than a saint”. Hill, Christopher (1972). The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. Viking. ISBN 978-0670789757. Demos, John (1970). A Little Commonwealth; Family Life in Plymouth Colony. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-501355-9.
That congregations could organise themselves and a Church hierarchy was not needed, especially bishops. Maclear, J. F. (April 1975). "New England and the Fifth Monarchy: The Quest for the Millennium in Early American Puritanism". The William and Mary Quarterly. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. 32 (2): 223–260. doi: 10.2307/1921563. JSTOR 1921563. This theological view did not in any way endear the Puritans to James I or most members of the Anglican Church. Moderate Puritans continued to serve in the Church in the early years of James I's reign, but the fundamentalists formed their own congregations and met secretly, especially the so-called separatists who believed one needed to leave the Anglican Church completely to save one's soul. These secret meetings were illegal, and when a congregation was discovered, its members were persecuted. The Great Migration Anti-Catholic sentiment appeared in New England with the first Pilgrim and Puritan settlers. [146] In 1647, Massachusetts passed a law prohibiting any Jesuit Roman Catholic priests from entering territory under Puritan jurisdiction. [147] Any suspected person who could not clear himself was to be banished from the colony; a second offense carried a death penalty. [148] Historiography [ edit ] Second version of The Puritan, a late 19th-century sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens Delhi News Live Updates: India should aim to become a developed nation by 2047, says PM Modi at 'Amrit Kalash' event 5 hours agoEnglish–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–Vietnamese The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant. [1] Puritanism played a significant role in English and early American history, especially during the Protectorate.
That the rituals, ceremonies and teachings developed over centuries by the Catholic Church went against God’s original intentions for his people. Attempting to force religious and intellectual homogeneity on the whole community, civil and religious restrictions were most strictly applied by the Puritans of Massachusetts which saw various banishments applied to enforce conformity, including the branding iron, the whipping post, the bilboes and the hangman's noose. [115] Swearing and blasphemy was illegal. In 1636, Massachusetts made blasphemy—defined as "a cursing of God by atheism, or the like"—punishable by death. [116] Bremer, Francis J.; Webster, Tom, eds. (2006). "Savoy Assembly". Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp.533–534. ISBN 978-1576076781.The analysis of "mainstream Puritanism" in terms of the evolution from it of Separatist and antinomian groups that did not flourish, and others that continue to this day, such as Baptists and Quakers, can suffer in this way. The national context (England and Wales, as well as the kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland) frames the definition of Puritans, but was not a self-identification for those Protestants who saw the progress of the Thirty Years' War from 1620 as directly bearing on their denomination, and as a continuation of the religious wars of the previous century, carried on by the English Civil Wars. English historian Christopher Hill, who has contributed to analyses of Puritan concerns that are more respected than accepted, writes of the 1630s, old church lands, and the accusations that William Laud was a crypto-Catholic:
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