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The Puritans were a group of people who were very believers in God. This happened in
New England. Arriving in large numbers in America during the first half of the 17th
century, they constantly modified and expanded that identity through an avalanche of
sermons, stories, hagiographies, Jeremiates and, to a lesser extent, poems. The Puritans
grew up with an idea that their lives had been written in the Bible and this was a new
world like paradise.
Characteristics
The spiritual search
Puritans took inspiration from the spiritual life to write their books as experiences with
God and stories from the Bible. They also wrote about the model of the perfect Christian
life. The Puritans kept diaries in which the focus was on the writer's spiritual journey. But
often, a special religious meaning was found in everyday events.
Biblical influence
the puritans were very inspired by the stories of the bible for example "Jeremias" was one
of the books of the bible that most used this literary genre is formula, in which the writer
first summarizes the joy and faith that he once had the community punishes them for
current and recent sins, and then advocates their repentance.
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