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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... differences between these groups . In the seventeenth century , too , the term " Puritan " was sometimes used indiscriminately , and nonseparatist Pu- ritans were particularly sensitive about being confused with their separat- ist ...
... difference between Presbyterian and Independent may seem minor in retrospect , for they shared much in common theologically , including a commitment to Calvinist doctrine and a virulent suspicion of anything resembling Roman Catholicism ...
... difference between the persecution they suffered under Catholic and Angli- can rule and the restrictions threatened by the Presbyterian majority ; as Independent John Milton famously penned it , on the matter of religious es ...
... difference between Williams and Thomas Jefferson , so the saying goes , is that the latter was trying to protect the state from the church , while the former was only interested in protecting the church from the state . This pithy ...
... tern of Israel had to be adjusted accordingly . This meant spiritualizing them , or reading Israel almost completely as typology for the church . For Wil- liams , Jesus himself embodied the difference between the types INTRODUCTION 27.
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