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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... worship sensi- tized Williams to the importance of protecting religious practice as a neces- sary expression of genuine religious belief , even when that practice conflicts with widely held social and legal norms . Williams desired ...
... worship . To re- quire this act of all residents , then , was to enforce a religious practice that he believed could violate the consciences of both unbelievers ( who may not subscribe to the implicit religious conviction in the ...
... 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 on religious deviance , for all the talk about liberty " signifieth the Reign of ...
... worship , " despite there being no Christian influence among them.29 Puritans , " Papists , " Span- ish " Turks , " New England governors , English kings , and American sachems all could and should — recognize the moral imperative to ...
... worship . While he considered all these religions false and his own Puritan faith true , he none- theless defended their right to hold and practice their religion without state interference . If Williams reminds the skeptic that ...