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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... Conscience 85 4. Christenings Make Not Christians 157 5. The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody 167 6. The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler 227 7. The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer 237 8. The Hireling Ministry None of ...
... conscience as being in the best interests of both re- ligion and state , protecting not only the integrity of belief but civil peace as well . But what makes Williams essential to the American tradition of reli- gious liberty is not ...
... also to Catholics , Quakers , and Native Americans . At the same time , he also recognized better than most how hard it would be to establish this uni- versal liberty , precisely because the expressions of conscience most 2 INTRODUCTION.
... conscience most in need of protection — those of a dissenting minority — have the potential to be most disturbing to the equally noble concern for social order . Because his principled defense of religious freedom grew from a ...
... conscience , 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 ...
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