On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31 jan. 2008 - 288 sidor 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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... 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 civil policy of religious liberty in both England ...
... banishment but was largely a defense of separatism , Williams ar- gued that the Boston leaders , despite their objections to his theology , implic- itly practiced separatism by physically removing themselves from the direct supervision ...
... banishment . Cotton ( 1584-1652 ) had been a leader of some prominence in 8. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff , ed . , Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England ( 1628-1686 ) , 5 vol . ( Boston : W. White , 1853 ...
... banishment " myste- riously " found itself in print . In this letter , Cotton denied Williams's charge that he had masterminded the Puritan deviant's banishment from the Bay Colony . On the contrary , Cotton insisted , he had tried hard ...
... banishment later " with tears to [ me ] con- fessed , that they could not in their souls have been brought to have con- sented to the sentence had not Mr. Cotton in private given them advice and counsel , providing it just and ...
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On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams Roger Williams Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2008 |
On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams Roger DAVIS,Roger Williams Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2009 |