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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... American Ideal 1. Mr. Cotton's 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 5. The ...
Selections from the Works of Roger Williams Roger Williams James Calvin Davis. On Religious Liberty INTRODUCTION Roger Williams and the Birth of an American Ideal III.
... American Ideal Roger Williams was America's earliest pioneer for religious liberty , but al- though he retains his place in cultural lore as the founder of Rhode Island and a curious voice in the Puritan wilderness , he is largely ...
... , Quakers , and Native Americans . At the same time , he also recognized better than most how hard it would be to establish this uni- versal liberty , precisely because the expressions of conscience most 2 INTRODUCTION.
... American doctrine of religious liberty is not inherited from Enlightenment rational- ism alone , but is equally indebted to the religious foundations of American culture . Beginnings in Puritan England Roger Williams was born in ...