On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31. jan. 2008 - 288 sider 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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... according to the needs of the sentence . I have eliminated Williams's copious use of " etc. , " normally replacing it with an " and " before the last item in a series , and have dispensed with almost all of the original italics , which ...
... According to the separatists ' primitivist ecclesiology , true churches focused their worship on the preach- ing and hearing of the Word , disciplined themselves according to a close reading of scripture , and governed themselves ...
... according to the quality , & measure of the Disturbance caused by Him . ” 17 Considering it an obvious social good that right religion be maintained , the Puritans saw little problem in commissioning the state with the au- thority to ...
... according to the " objective " stan- dards of the Bible . In fact many Puritans argued that because conscience was attuned to the divine law , it could not disagree with scriptural mandates ; in- stances of apparent disagreement were ...
... According to his testimony in the Key , Williams believed that Native Americans not only val- ued mature moral conscience more than the English , but they also showed far more respect for vari- ations in conscience than he observed in ...
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