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 Davis . P. cm . ( The John Harvard Library ) Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN - 13 : 978-0-674-02622-3 ...
... religious and moral authority , and the impor- tance of a pure church . Like his fellow Puritans , Williams also maintained a certain exclusivity in his religious convictions ; in other words , Williams be- lieved that because the ...
... 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 implicit religious conviction in the practice ) and believers ( who might object to participating in an act of worship ...
... religious liberty . Williams soon would have other occasions to explore this commitment to religious liberty , for during his stay in London , Parliament was preoccupied with questions of religion . In league with Scotland against King ...
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