On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 30/06/2009 - 304 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. Davis gathers together important selections from Williams's public and private writings on religious liberty, illustrating how this renegade Puritan radically reinterpreted Christian moral theology and the events of his day in a powerful argument for freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state. |
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... tion as an apostate church helped lead to his banishment from Massachu- setts. Remarkably, however, the same religious dogmatism that made Williams so theologically intolerant eventually would inspire him to work tirelessly for a civil ...
... tion as an apostate church helped lead to his banishment from Massachu- setts. Remarkably, however, the same religious dogmatism that made Williams so theologically intolerant eventually would inspire him to work tirelessly for a civil ...
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... tion of the new world , some Puritan leaders were considering emigration to America , with the hope of establishing a Christian community that could 3. I am indebted to Charles M. Swezey for this image . serve as a model for reform at ...
... tion of the new world , some Puritan leaders were considering emigration to America , with the hope of establishing a Christian community that could 3. I am indebted to Charles M. Swezey for this image . serve as a model for reform at ...
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... for the reform of English church and society , not as a symbol of their rejection of the mother church . Challenging the official church invited political retribu- tion on the colony, revocation of its charter, and a 8 INTRODUCTION.
... for the reform of English church and society , not as a symbol of their rejection of the mother church . Challenging the official church invited political retribu- tion on the colony, revocation of its charter, and a 8 INTRODUCTION.
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... tion on the colony, revocation of its charter, and a premature end to the “holy experiment” its leaders set out to create. Williams certainly was not the only separatist in New England; the leaders of Plymouth Colony to the south of ...
... tion on the colony, revocation of its charter, and a premature end to the “holy experiment” its leaders set out to create. Williams certainly was not the only separatist in New England; the leaders of Plymouth Colony to the south of ...
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... tion about the exotic (and potentially convertible) Americans, it would pro- vide the earliest insight into Williams's conviction that common morality— not religious uniformity—was the secret to a stable and flourishing human society.7 ...
... tion about the exotic (and potentially convertible) Americans, it would pro- vide the earliest insight into Williams's conviction that common morality— not religious uniformity—was the secret to a stable and flourishing human society.7 ...
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1 Mr Cottons Letter Lately Printed Examined and Answered | 46 |
2 Queries of Highest Consideration | 73 |
3 The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience | 85 |
4 Christenings Make Not Christians | 157 |
6 The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler | 227 |
7 The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer | 237 |
8 The Hireling Ministry None of Christs | 249 |
9 George Fox Diggd out of His Burrowes | 261 |
10 Selected Letters | 270 |
Index | 285 |
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