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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... toleration but for liberty ; he recognized that religious free- dom must be understood as a fundamental human right and not legisla- tive discretion . Williams also extended the protection of conscience farther than Locke could imagine ...
... toleration . In the eighteenth cen- tury , Williams's theological defense of religious liberty would profoundly in- fluence the efforts of religious activists whose own efforts would be essential to the passage of the First Amendment ...
... toleration in the next century , Williams was seldom remembered as a pioneer in the ef- fort . Plagued with a reputation for anarchy and moral laxity , Rhode Island was not regarded as a model of the success of religious liberty ; if ...
... toleration . Locke matured in the context of the Eng- lish parliamentary debates over toleration to which Williams contributed significantly , and many arguments that Williams made on behalf of reli- gious freedom appear almost verbatim ...
... Toleration ( Buffalo , N.Y .: Prometheus , 1990 ) , 56-61 . Locke ac- knowledges briefly that the particular issue of morality seems to " belong therefore to the jurisdic- tion both of the outward and inward court " ( 56 ) , thus ...