hi, Im Irish and here we still use the phrase "the devil a ", having meaning like the American expression "He's a Puritan, NOT!" . So "Devil a Puritan", or in our accent (Quiet Tudorish sounding still in 2017) "divil the puritan" means I believe there is not the remotest chance he is a purtain. its like a sarcastic negation. it is archaic and it is an oxymoron in most cases, but i love the linguistic connection to the past.

Just wanted to tell you that I ran across you Lord of the rings lectures and I've gotten hooked! I'm not sure if you know this, but not a lot of people are doing what your doing on KZread. I just wanted to tell you to keep it up and thank you.

The drama company got huge financial support from the king. This type of play would have please him.

Interesting and entertaining tidbit of history. Thanks for your effort!

If just subscribed to this channel and from what I've seen so far I'm going to really enjoy watching these videos. Thank you for going to all the effort it must have taken to make them.

I'd love a follow up on Shakespeare and the theology of grace in "Measure for Measure." Just saying.

I don't know how true this is, but I read that the modern image of Father Christmas as a jolly old fat man and the embodiment of 'good cheer to all men' were in part propaganda against the puritans attempt to ban 'pagan' festivities.

Puritanism takes a bunch of stuff the Bible never even mentions (dancing, gambling, etc) and anathemizes it.

@truthseeker7242

7 жыл бұрын

Omega - Yes, it took away the concepts of joy and celebration - and banned us from eating mince pies - which they deemed as being a tad too 'popish' - and we all know what the likes of 'Rev' Ian Paisley thinks about 'popery'! If I ever meet up with my ancestor Samuel Skelton 'First minister at Salem, colonial Massachusetts', hopefully in Heaven; I will quiz him on just what the heck he was thinking in choosing 'Puritanism'!

got a question! were the any other reformed groups in Britain that weren't as strict as the puritans? besides Scottish presbyterians

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. You might say that the issue of these types of portraits of Puritanism in pop culture are the impression, not the reality. There were all kinds of Puritans, some more radical, others not. Historians have attempted to define a group called 'Moderate Puritans', but the name isn't helpful and sounds oxymoronic. But there were all kinds. There were also Anglicans who were sympathetic to Puritans in many ways, though unwilling to fight about it. In the end, only a very small percentage were ever really 'puritanical' in the pejorative sense.

@GreatKhanMatt

7 жыл бұрын

thats good to know, as an irish presbyterian its probably best for me to know more about our spiritual forefathers back in mainland Britain on the topic of strains of puritans in england, where there any english presbyterians? i ask this because the Westminster confession is Presbyterian in polity, while most puritans seem to be congregationalist historically. so were some of the westminister divines english presbyterians? and if so? what happened to this particular strain of puritanism?

So, if he was a Puritan was he predestined to be cursed? 😉

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Ha! :)

I don't know why I never made that connection.

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think my mind has a large collection of artificial separations (Shakespeare over here, Puritans over here) that keep breaking down. :)

Issac Watts was as good as Shakespeare with the English language.

I have come to the conclusion that Shakespeare was probably a Catholic. Thoughts?

@howtubeable

7 жыл бұрын

Well, probably more conservative than the average Puritan, no doubt. Most people who looked at the Puritans cynically would appear Catholic, just because there weren't any clear alternatives. A devout Royalist and Anglican would seem very Catholic to us today.

@truthseeker7242

7 жыл бұрын

Howard - Indeed, even Luther began to become concerned that he had spawned a monster, and that Henry VIII was clutching a rosary the day he died. The issue of 'authority' is something that 'Protestantism' has not managed to address - just who has the God given right to interpret the scriptures, tradition, and Jesus' words and life. Did Jesus speak with one voice and one meaning, or did He speak, in one sense, rather like the devil, with many variations and many tongues and meaning? 'Protestantism' has spawned so-far at least 33,000 going 35,000 variants, with practically everyone appearing to be their own authority, interpreter and 'pope'.

@kaneinkansas

7 жыл бұрын

My thoughts under comments for BRWaldo97.

I looked up my name and it means unfortunate lol. stupid Latin root words