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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... - 10 : 0-674-02685-3 ( pbk .: alk . paper ) 1. Freedom of religion . I. Davis , James Calvin . II . Title . BV741.W55 2008 323.44'2 - dc22 2007014202 For Jae William Contents Acknowledgments ix Editorial Method xi Introduction.
... freedom by the legacy of enlightened patriots from the eighteenth century . One hundred fifty years before one of those patriots , Thomas Jefferson , penned a similar phrase , Williams was ad- vocating a " wall of separation between the ...
... freedom grew from a sophisticated and per- sonal understanding of religious 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 ...
... freedom ) , but he perhaps also acquired some of his facility with logical argumentation , which he would later put to great use in debates over church and state with the New England authorities . In the short term , the greatest gift ...
... freedom of conscience . The Bloody Tenent of Persecution Once settled in Providence , Williams apparently began an exchange of correspondence with Boston minister John Cotton over the subject of his banishment . Cotton ( 1584-1652 ) had ...