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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... sin and profession of their knowledge and grace in Christ . " Their objections to separatism amounted to hypocrisy , argued Williams , but they also betrayed the values of Puritanism itself , for separatism's concern for the purity of ...
... sins amongst them which Europe abounds with . Drunkenness and gluttony , generally they know not what sins they be , and although they have not so much to restrain them ( both in respect of knowledge of God and laws of men ) as the ...
... sinful means of power politics obscured the church's true identity and proper allegiance . Williams believed that histori- cally the church was purest when it existed as a minority religion under the shadow of an ambivalent or even ...
... sinful social structure . Utilizing conven- tional Puritan interpretative method , then , Williams turned Puritan theol- ogy on itself , undercutting much of the biblical defense of religious coercion and rooting his own apology for ...
... sin , though he thought that enough awareness remained to permit human beings to cooperate in social communities ( and to render them guilty when they transgress the moral law ) . The Puritans tended to afford more promi- nence to ...
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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 |