Question

Bring out the salient features of American Puritanism.​

Answer 1

ANSWER

The moral and religious earnestness that was characteristic of Puritans was combined with the doctrine of predestination inherited from Calvinism to produce a “covenant theology,” a sense of themselves as the elect chosen by God to live godly lives both as individuals and as a community.

Answer 2

Answer:

The salient features of American Puritanism are as follows:

• American Puritanism was mostly based on the Holy book Bible.
• Puritanism had a definite purpose in the mind of the Puritans.  
• American Puritanism had a motive to glorify the works of the almighty God.
• The literature was practically the day to day affairs of Puritans which contributed an extraodrinary amount of value to the early literature.