why study the puritans

the study of the puritans is probably one of the important study in theology because it gives in-depth the importance of depending on the word of God and it also reviews an aspect of theology that i feel has been wiped out in today Christianity. studying the puritans not only gives one knowledge of how the sect of community lived, it also reviews a couture of Christianity in different ways of life style and principles. the puritans ways of life has opened my eyes in many ways especiallly concerning God has a suprem artholity over all and has also taught me the importance of biblical morality which i believe has also been lost in the last decades. even though some christians in today’s couture totaly put their depence on the word of God but when looking at the puritans i see a more ephase on the value of the word of GOD. The puritans valued the word of God so much that it become their life style and it become their guide and ruller. The study of the puritans not only teaches a strict in moral purity it also outlines the major tenets of puritanism concerning their beliefs and ways of worship and personal relationship with God and each other. for exampie for one to become a member of a puritan church that person had to first of all be living a godly life and have a clear understading of main tenets of their faith and also be abie to demostrate their experiace of God’s work in their life and  true evidence of god’s grace in their souls. another asopect is the older of the church which also included women been dimonished to speak in the church. the puritans highly emphasized on the fight agasnt indweling sin and their focuss was to live a life that is according to the word of God.

the puritans deeply admired the ealry church fathers such as calvin and martin ruther chrysostom who was their favorites.. they admired them so much that they reguary quoted their works and it incouraged them to stand agaisnt other traditions and anything or any one that came agasnt their faith and belief. the puritans admired chrysostom the most because he spoke agasn’t worldly culture such as drama which at that time had just been adopted as part of english culture. the puritans rejected anything to do with the world and were discusted by any form of secular intertainment.

worship

the puritans were very strict in terms of worship infact they condemed any practice of worship which was not refressed in the bibie, they ephazised highly on preaching but no form of musical instruments were allowed during their services. the puritans followed calvins way of christianity but apoposed any angelican idea of the monarch supremacy because they believed the only head of the church is christ which took the pope and governours out of the question. they emphased highly on private bibie studies and they allowed candles and images during their worship. the puritans loved knowlege.

how does this compare to pigrims progress

the puritans were on search for heaven on earth they all life was centered on being perfect for heaven which ment they had to live a life based totaly on the word of God. this reminds me of christian in john bunna’s pigrims progress because he was also on a jurney to a city and he reased that he had to live according to the word of God in order to make it to the city. the puritans belied england was a city of distruction and that they needed to escape its way of life and rullership in older to make it to heaven, christian also had to live his old life and ruller ship. i believe that when john was writing the pigrims progress he had in mind the puritans,