On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31 sty 2008 - 288 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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... tion as an apostate church helped lead to his banishment from Massachu- setts . Remarkably , however , the same religious dogmatism that made Williams so theologically intolerant eventually would inspire him to work tirelessly for a ...
... tion of the new world , some Puritan leaders were considering emigration to America , with the hope of establishing a Christian community that could 3. I am indebted to Charles M. Swezey for this image . serve as a model for reform at ...
... for the reform of English church and society , not as a symbol of their rejection of the mother church . Challenging the official church invited political retribu- tion on the colony , revocation of its charter , 8 INTRODUCTION.
Selections from the Works of Roger Williams Roger Williams James Calvin Davis. tion on the colony , revocation of its charter , and a premature end to the " holy experiment " its leaders set out to create . Williams certainly was not the ...
... tion about the exotic ( and potentially convertible ) Americans , it would pro- vide the earliest insight into Williams's conviction that common morality— not religious uniformity — was the secret to a stable and flourishing human ...
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