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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... honor they invited young Williams to accept . Williams , however , rejected the congregation's invitation on the grounds that they had not explicitly renounced the Church of England . To the surprise and bewil- derment of the Boston ...
... 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 Calvinist conviction that the efficacy of the cove- nant of grace was not ...
... honored the natural need and right to follow one's conscience , put an end to the violence associated with religious compulsion , and opened the way for the appropriate means for spreading good religion : intellectual persuasion and ...
... Honor of Leo Pfeffer , ed . James E. Wood , Jr. ( Waco : Baylor University Press , 1985 ) , 7 ; and Winthrop S. Hudson , " Locke : Heir of Puritan Political Theorists , " in Calvinism and Political Order , ed . George L. Hunt ...
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