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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... separation between the Garden of the church and the wilderness of the world . " Generations ahead of James Madison , Williams commended freedom of conscience as being in the best interests of both re- ligion and state , protecting not ...
... separation between the Garden of the church and the wilderness of the world . " Williams counted the apostate Church of England among the profanations of the latter , and he insisted that godly Christians must explicitly reject the ...
... the church from the state . This pithy analysis fails from both sides , but it does particular damage to an accurate reading of Williams , for Williams's defense of religious liberty and the separation of church and state INTRODUCTION 21 ...
... separation of church and state was rooted in both ecclesial and political interests , in both a concern for the purity of the church and an appreciation for what makes a commonwealth flourish . To- ward this latter end , Williams argued ...
... separation of church and state , and he often appealed to the universality of civility in his arguments . Because Williams assumed that all human beings were capable of this kind of social virtue , even with- out benefit of Christian ...
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