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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... experience , a deep respect for human dig- nity and the integrity of the conscience , and a genuine appreciation for the importance of social obligation and cooperation , Williams was better pre- pared to deal with the " hard cases " of ...
... experiences of former and present slaughters " in the name of religion in order to refute the core as- sumptions that lay behind the Puritan practice of enforcing religious ortho- doxy with the power of the state . As the antagonist of ...
... experience and the wishes of the divine and constitutes a " bloody tenent " — " bloody to the bod- ies , first of the holy witnesses of Christ Jesus " and " second of the nations and peoples slaughtering each other for their several ...
... experience , " such persons only break the cities ' or kingdoms ' peace who cry out for prison and swords against such who cross their judg- ment or practice in religion . " Furthermore , persecution cannot work to cre- ate the converts ...
... experience , or simply " finer animal spirits . " But the authority of conscience derived from its status as the voice of God's judg- ment " searching " within a person , and Williams cautioned that persecution of those following the ...