The religious spectrum

Puritans

• Salvation gained as a gift from God to those who were predestined to be saved
• The role of the Church is to guide and educate according to the rules laid down in the Bible
• Preaching and private prayer, Bible study and reading are the key to salvation; rituals distract the ignorant from true salvation
• Bishops have no special power
• Catholicism is the devil seeking to corrupt true faith and the Pope is the Antichrist
• Obedience should be given to authority unless they threaten God's cause and true religion

Anglicans

• Salvation comes through faith alone
• The Church has authority to guide people to salvation
• There is a place for some ritual to symbolise aspects of faith
• Bishops have…