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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... punished for his religion ( the General Court articulated the charges against him in almost exclusively civil terms , but Cotton later let slip that Williams had " banished himself " from the churches ) , the result was that as early as ...
... punishment of minority religions . In Queries Williams fired a single shot over the bow of religious establish- ment , but in the summer of 1644 he would provide a more sustained attack . A decade earlier John Cotton had received a copy ...
... punished according to the quality , & measure of the Disturbance caused by Him . ” 17 Considering it an obvious ... punish impiety and immorality . More to the point , ancient Israel provided a biblical template for how religion and ...
... 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 divinely ordained to pursue , so that ...
... punishment ; encouraging this lack of trustworthiness is hardly a social asset , argued Williams . But more often persecution creates martyrs , for force usu- ally manages only to harden the convictions of its victims : " Now all these ...