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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... true " congregations that followed more faithfully the pattern of early Christianity . These more radical Puritans were known as " separatists . " According to the separatists ' primitivist ecclesiology , true churches focused their ...
... true . Having achieved a certain level of success in their effort to create a " holy commonwealth , " they assumed that maintaining the health of religion was an important social objective . Religious laxity would endanger the church ...
... true religion within its bounds and served its weakest members , and these faithful societies would serve as the building blocks for Christ's kingdom when he returned to earth . But God would abandon the society that permitted impiety ...
... true Church of God in those places . " Williams agreed that a peaceful and productive commonwealth required the cultivation of public virtue , but he denied that unified subscription to Protestant Chris- tianity was necessary to ensure ...
... true Christian members of the church , and the ser- vants were God's ministers . The tares were subtle hypocrites in the church , members of the congregation who appeared to be faithful but who may se- cretly hold deviant beliefs . Read ...