On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 30.06.2009 - 304 Seiten 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. Davis gathers together important selections from Williams's public and private writings on religious liberty, illustrating how this renegade Puritan radically reinterpreted Christian moral theology and the events of his day in a powerful argument for freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state. |
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... King Henry VIII, in response to the pope's refusal to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, had torn the Church of England from the Catholic fold. With the Act of Supremacy in 1534, Henry declared himself “Supreme Head” of the ...
... King Henry VIII, in response to the pope's refusal to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, had torn the Church of England from the Catholic fold. With the Act of Supremacy in 1534, Henry declared himself “Supreme Head” of the ...
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... reform became more vocal, more organized, and more popular through- out her reign. When Elizabeth died in 1603, the Puritans looked to the transition from the Tudor line to the Stuart kings with cautious optimism. 4 Introduction.
... reform became more vocal, more organized, and more popular through- out her reign. When Elizabeth died in 1603, the Puritans looked to the transition from the Tudor line to the Stuart kings with cautious optimism. 4 Introduction.
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... kings with cautious optimism. James was king of Scotland, after all, where Calvinist Presbyterianism thrived; surely he would have greater sympathy for the Calvinist cause than Elizabeth's careful politics had allowed. While Elizabeth ...
... kings with cautious optimism. James was king of Scotland, after all, where Calvinist Presbyterianism thrived; surely he would have greater sympathy for the Calvinist cause than Elizabeth's careful politics had allowed. While Elizabeth ...
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... king who ap- pointed them . A rebuff of the established church , then , was not only a theo- logical statement but political rebellion as well , and those who rejected the church risked facing all the normal consequences of treason ...
... king who ap- pointed them . A rebuff of the established church , then , was not only a theo- logical statement but political rebellion as well , and those who rejected the church risked facing all the normal consequences of treason ...
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... king's charters on which the English colonies were founded. The land in New England be- longed to the Americans, Williams asserted, so it was not the king's place to be granting permission for the English to settle on it; instead, the ...
... king's charters on which the English colonies were founded. The land in New England be- longed to the Americans, Williams asserted, so it was not the king's place to be granting permission for the English to settle on it; instead, the ...
Inhalt
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1 Mr Cottons Letter Lately Printed Examined and Answered | 46 |
2 Queries of Highest Consideration | 73 |
3 The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience | 85 |
4 Christenings Make Not Christians | 157 |
6 The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler | 227 |
7 The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer | 237 |
8 The Hireling Ministry None of Christs | 249 |
9 George Fox Diggd out of His Burrowes | 261 |
10 Selected Letters | 270 |
Index | 285 |
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