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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... religious liberty : selections from the works of Roger Williams / Edited and with an Introduction by James Calvin ... religion . I. Davis , James Calvin . II . Title . BV741.W55 2008 323.44'2 - dc22 2007014202 For Jae William Contents ...
... religious liberty was superior to the one we have inherited from the Enlightenment . In contrast to John Locke , Williams ar- gued not just for toleration but for liberty ; he recognized that religious free- dom must be understood as a ...
... religious lib- erty is richer in both scope and depth than that of more prominent de- fenders . What is astonishing is ... religion he most despised . In establishing Rhode Island as a safe haven for conscientious conviction , he argued ...
... religion . The conceptual richness that informed Williams's writings on religious liberty was provided by his religious world- view . Williams did not come about his defense of religious liberty in spite of his own dogmatism , but in ...
... religious practice that he believed could violate the consciences of both unbelievers ( who may not subscribe to the ... religion and conscience , arguing that the power of the state extends only over the bodies and goods of its citizens ...
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