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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... witness of countless faithful in church history testified to the necessity of a " hedge or wall of separation between the Garden of the church and the wilderness of the world . " Williams counted the apostate Church of England among the ...
... and constitutes a " bloody tenent " — " bloody to the bod- ies , first of the holy witnesses of Christ Jesus " and " second of the nations and peoples slaughtering each other for their several respective religions 20 INTRODUCTION.
... witness of human experi- ence : religious persecution serves neither church nor state , while religious liberty benefits both . Appealing to these varied sources , Williams argued that religious persecution was theologically dubious ...
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