How can one tell the difference of two different but similar groups without mentioning the similarities? Puritanism, which encompasses the Puritans and the Pilgrim, was a group of disciples that split far from the Catholic Church after the English Reformation. Maxwell (2003) noted that:
Puritanism in England was essentially a movement within the established church for the purifying of that church - for ministers godly and able to teach, for a simplifying of ritual, for a return to the virtues of primitive Christianity. There was nothing revolutionary about the main body of its doctrine. Its innovating principle was in the idea that the Bible, rather than any established religious hierarchy, was the final authority. Therefore every man, every individual, had direct access to the word of God. (p. 2)
Both of the groups wanted to leave England so that they could flee and get away from the discrimination that King was imposing. The king was discriminating against their religious practices because they did not follow or obey the rules of the English Church. Both the Puritans and the Pilgrims were nonconformists refusing to accept any authority higher than the revealed word. However, the major difference between the Puritans and the Pilgrims is that …show more content…
As mentioned in The Pilgrims’ Landing in America (2012), the Pilgrims landed in 1620 and founded the Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims were drove by Robert Browne and arrived to America on the Mayflower. They persevered through a harsh voyage that lasted 66 days. The Puritans drove under the authority of John Foxe, arrived about 10 years after the Pilgrims between the years 1629 and 1630. They landed in numerous boats and settled in the Massachusetts Bay. This venture, the exact contemporary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was intended to be the great puritan colony (Kupperman, 1993, p.
Puritanism in England was essentially a movement within the established church for the purifying of that church - for ministers godly and able to teach, for a simplifying of ritual, for a return to the virtues of primitive Christianity. There was nothing revolutionary about the main body of its doctrine. Its innovating principle was in the idea that the Bible, rather than any established religious hierarchy, was the final authority. Therefore every man, every individual, had direct access to the word of God. (p. 2)
Both of the groups wanted to leave England so that they could flee and get away from the discrimination that King was imposing. The king was discriminating against their religious practices because they did not follow or obey the rules of the English Church. Both the Puritans and the Pilgrims were nonconformists refusing to accept any authority higher than the revealed word. However, the major difference between the Puritans and the Pilgrims is that …show more content…
As mentioned in The Pilgrims’ Landing in America (2012), the Pilgrims landed in 1620 and founded the Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims were drove by Robert Browne and arrived to America on the Mayflower. They persevered through a harsh voyage that lasted 66 days. The Puritans drove under the authority of John Foxe, arrived about 10 years after the Pilgrims between the years 1629 and 1630. They landed in numerous boats and settled in the Massachusetts Bay. This venture, the exact contemporary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was intended to be the great puritan colony (Kupperman, 1993, p.