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For better consideration, we may distribute the aspects of Beauty in a threefold manner. To be continued... Beauty Contents Puritanism Beauty Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Christianity (基督教) Catholicism(天主教) Eastern Orthodoxy(东正教) Protestantism(新教) Latheranism(路德宗) Anglicanism(圣公会) Calvinism(加尔文宗) Wesleyans(卫斯理宗) Congregationalists(公理宗) Baptists(浸礼宗) Puritanism(清教/清教主义) Puritans(清教徒) in England Although the British King, did have separated from the Roman Catholic Church and had turned himself the head of the Church of England, in the minds of Puritans, he had done far from enough. Puritans wanted to“purify”the Church of England from every shred of the rituals and rites of the Catholics. This is how they came to be called “Puritans”. Henry Ⅷ Elizabeth Ⅰ Puritans Puritans who felt that the Church of England was so corrupt that true Christians should separate from it. Separatists: Non-separatists: Puritans who felt that the Reformation of the Church of England was not to their satisfaction, but who remained within the Church of England advocating further reforms. Pilgrims, who sailed across the Atlantic by the ship named May Flower and settled the Plymouth Colony in 1620. In 1630, a group of non-separatists, under the leadership of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, also reached the New World. loose religious environment terrible natural conditions life in the frontierland European Calvinism revised Calvinism In America more worldly Puritanism followed the teachings of Calvinism, which was one version of Protestantism in Europe advocated by theologist Calvin. Calvinism: ※The Bible is the only source of God’s true word and the“priesthood of all believers”. ※Some people are predestined to be the“elect”—the chosen people by God to be saved, while others are abandoned by God. The sign of being the“elect” is that his work will be rewarded by God with the success in life, especially material success. ※One cannot change his fate