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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... argument as possible by taking a minimalist approach to deleting passages . The result in these cases is more an abridgment of the text than an assembly of short , crudely excised selections . The passages that have been ... arguments ( II.
... argument or those to which he is responding , define obscure words , provide biblical references , and insert interpretive commentary on arguments raised in the text . On Religious Liberty INTRODUCTION Roger Williams and the Birth of ...
... arguing that the power of the state extends only over the bodies and goods of its citizens . The increasingly worried Massachusetts General Court monitored Williams's activities in Salem through much of 1635 , summoning him periodically ...
... arguments , and the provision of intellec- tual evidence to persuade . Many of Williams's conclusions about the impracticability of religious compulsion in The Bloody Tenent and other works derive from his theologi- cal understanding of ...
... arguments for religious free- dom . The capacity to exercise the deliberative functions of this moral faculty may be more or less healthy in a particular person , but " this conscience is found in all mankind , more or less , in Jews ...