Puritans
177The Story
22 Jan 2024
32:14¶ 88
“Yes, but it’s so important to say, “Look at this. Some of the things in our time that everybody is so horrified by with…”
174In the Beginning... Again
4 Jan 2024
11:50¶ 38
“The Puritans, particularly those who came to America, picked up on this for a generation or so and really began to hammer this. The…”
9:04¶ 32
“As the Middle Ages embraced Christianity, the idea of some kind of cycle or eternal return faded into the background until we begin to…”
150Doing the Right Thing
26 Dec 2022
31:57¶ 104
“This is the mistake the Puritans made. They wanted churches of visible saints, so although they baptized their children, they would not confirm them…”
99Hannah
3 Jan 2022
25:33¶ 101
“The Puritans for a generation or two were very strongly what we would call today post-millennial. They believed the latter-day glory of the church,…”
24:23¶ 98
“Can I jump in with a question? I have purposely not studied very much eschatology or history of eschatology because the fights just get…”
25:52¶ 102
“In the wake of the Great Awakening it became more revival-oriented, but America remained the focus, because the revivals that happened then happened outside…”
73Success
4 Jul 2021
29:43¶ 89
“Then you can compare the Catholic West with the Protestant West, and again there’s much more interaction in Protestantism with the real world that…”
30:24¶ 90
“You can think here of the Westminster Confession which, for all of its beauty, you come to the Fourth Commandment and it sure sounds…”
30:45¶ 91
“As Puritanism dies, we get the Yankee, the sharp trader, the good businessman, the man who amasses wealth because of his work. In order…”
16Of One Blood
19 Apr 2020
37:08¶ 106
“The Puritans wanted to be faithful to God in their worship, so they tended to worship in white-washed rectangular buildings so that nothing would…”
37:26¶ 107
“First of all, they tended to identify worship with intellectual processing, which is not a biblical concept, but they also divorced themselves from a…”
12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress
22 Mar 2020
38:15¶ 129
“Luther wasn’t so sure about that. Calvin in his better moments was pretty sure. Then along come the Puritans and they were absolutely sure.…”
41:10¶ 141
“Notice where that comes from. Notice the Enlightenment and compare it with the demise of Puritanism. We stepped directly from the Puritans giving up…”