On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31/01/2008 - 288 من الصفحات Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. He conducted a lifelong debate over religious freedom with distinguished figures of the seventeenth century, including Puritan minister John Cotton, Massachusetts governor John Endicott, and the English Parliament. |
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... ship between religion and state in ancient Israel . The Puritans explicitly es- chewed a typological reading of Israel , instead adopting God's most favored nation in the Old Testament as their inspiration for constructing a Christian ...
... ship sanctioned , raised tensions between the Narragansett and the English that would flare up again a decade later , when the United Colonies at- 30. The schemes of three political rivals in particular - Samuel Gorton , William Harris ...
... Ship of State " letter , Wil- liams assured his fellow citizens " that ever I should speak or write a tittle that tends to such an infinite liberty of conscience " as to encourage the abdi- cation of fundamental social responsibility ...
... ship as those in the Puritan majority . To Williams , Cotton's assertion that good citizenship required Christianity was " dangerously destructive to the very roots of all civil relations , converse , and dealing ; yea , and any civil ...
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