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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... civil prosecution of religious deviance . Williams disagreed with both Cotton's interpretation and his conclusion ... civil society . Read this way , Williams believed that Jesus was using the parable to warn against the civil ...
Selections from the Works of Roger Williams Roger Williams James Calvin Davis. against the civil persecution of the " weeds . " Permit religious deviants to co- exist with the faithful in civil society , counseled Jesus , for magistrates ...
... civil power or people consenting and agreeing shall entrust them with , " wrote Williams , a statement that he admitted had no direct basis in scrip- ture but was confirmed by reason . He also employed arguments from reason in rejecting ...
... civil force . On the other hand , while the presence of the Quakers in Rhode Island testified to the colony's ( and Williams's ) commitment to religious freedom , Williams occasionally indicated that he was willing to consider civil ...
... civil authority and public decency a condition of the Quakers ' welcome , too . Ultimately , though , Wil- liams ... civil relations , converse , and dealing ; yea , and any civil being of the world itself . " He wondered , for instance ...