In what way were Martin Luther and John Calvin important to English Puritans?
A) These two men would help found the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B) Luther and Calvin encouraged the Puritans to leave England for the New World.
C) Luther and Calvin advocated ideas of religious reform that influenced Puritan thought.
D) They were the most influential English Puritans of the seventeenth century.
E) Luther and Calvin helped to break the hold of predestination on the Puritan mind.

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Luther and Calvin were important figures of the Protestant Reformation and their ideas of religious reform greatly influenced the Puritans. The Puritans believed in the need for continued reform within the Church of England, and they looked to Luther and Calvin as examples of reformers who had successfully challenged the traditional authority of the Catholic Church.

In What Way Were Martin Luther and John Calvin Important