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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... commonwealth , " they assumed that maintaining the health of religion was an important social objective . Religious laxity would endanger the church and by doing so would also threaten the most important source for moral education and ...
... commonwealth ; but perhaps more worrisome for Puritans , “ liberty in all matters of Worship and of Faith " could be , as Richard Baxter assumed , " the open and apparent way to set up Popery in the Land . " 16 Better to clamp down hard ...
... commonwealth , which included the punishment of error so arrogant or disruptive as to constitute a threat to the church or the state . This responsibility was intricately intertwined with other social ends that civil government was ...
... commonwealth rested on at least an implicit covenant between its members to honor laws held in common and to work together for the public good , a covenant to which God was a party , too . While the Pu- ritans were clear in their ...
... commonwealth flourish . To- ward this latter end , Williams argued against religious compulsion as a re- quirement of the good society on the grounds that religious uniformity did not ensure social stability and peace . Appealing to the ...