arapahoepark
Puritan Board Professor
Where there any Puritans appointed to be the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Puritan Archbishops?
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There are doctrinal-Puritans and discipline-Puritans, to name but two classifications. The Calvinism of the Church of England was fairly strong from Parker through to Abbott. I think Grindal was the most conciliatory to the party. But, by default, the bishops and archbishops were bound to uphold the Elizabethan settlement, so there could be no "Puritans" in the proper sense of the term.
arapahoepark
Puritan Board Professor
Ah the last part does make sense. What exactly is the difference with discipline puritans?
Rev. Winzer, weren't the Puritans in opposition to Erastianism? Wasn't that what made them Puritans in some ways. Cramner, Ridley, and Latimer could be referred to as Reformers but could they be considered Puritans?
They sought the purity of the reformed Church of England according to the apostolic pattern. They were influenced by the Genevan reformation and considered there were many remnants of Popery which yet remained to be reformed in England. Unlike the Separatists, they regarded the Church of England as a true church and would not separate from it. So they were, strictly speaking, distinct from those who fled to the Continent and New England.
arapahoepark
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Oh ok, thanks!
Although anti-Erastians would see the Elizabethan settlement as embodying Erastian views, Erastianism itself came later.
Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer were prior to the troubles at Frankfort, where the "Puritans" as a distinct party historically emerged.
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