LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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They disagreed with Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn,
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They desired to reunite with the Catholic church.
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They felt that the Church of England needed further cleansing from the corruption of Catholicism.
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They wanted to leave England for the New World in order to spread Christianity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Complete answer: Puritans felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church and that rituals and activities not rooted in the Bible should be removed. The Puritans required moral purity to live lives. Religious values characterised the lives of the Puritans.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ecclesiastical courts were corrupt. Because the king of England was head of both church and state, the Puritans’ opposition to religious authority meant they also defied the civil authority of the state.
Detailed explanation-3: -They believed the Church of England was too similar to the Roman Catholic Church and should eliminate ceremonies and practices not rooted in the Bible. Puritans felt that they had a direct covenant with God to enact these reforms.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Pilgrims strongly believed that the Church of England, and the Catholic Church, had strayed beyond Christ’s teachings, and established religious rituals, and church hierarchies, that went against the teachings of the Bible.
Detailed explanation-5: -While the Separatists believed that the only way to live according to Biblical precepts was to leave the Church of England entirely, the Puritans thought they could reform the church from within.