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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... social covenants with God as being contingent on the communities ' moral and re- ligious faithfulness . In these covenants , God pledged to bless the faithful church or " holy commonwealth " that maintained true religion within its ...
... social stability and peace . Appealing to the rich Christian tradi- tion of natural law , Williams asserted that God endows all human beings with a basic capacity for morality , for peaceful coexistence and social coop- eration ...
... social harmony actually achieves the opposite , for it tends to create more violence and strife than it prevents . Williams in- sisted that if public disruption follows religious dissent , that strife usually " is not made by such ...
... social crimes because they disregard their conscience , of course , but some transgress accepted standards of good and evil at the behest of conscience— 23. According to his testimony in the Key , Williams believed that Native Americans ...
... social de- viance was a result of sinning against what conscience taught to be right and good . Dissenters were guilty of either ignorance ( misunderstanding the dic- tates of their own conscience ) or malice ( willfully disregarding it ) ...