On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31.01.2008 - 288 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. 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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... England and New England . The Calvinism that made him so confident in his own beliefs also commended to him the integrity of conscientious conviction and warned him of the dangerous consequences of a society's attempting to coerce ...
... England Roger Williams was born in Smithfield , England , probably in 1603 , the year Queen Elizabeth I died and James I ascended to the throne . Though few Londoners appreciated it at the time , this royal transition marked a fateful ...
... England , dissolved the extensive property holdings of Catholic monasteries in the country , and consolidated control of the church under the crown . England was thus made officially a Protestant nation , but because the reformation was ...
... England . By the end of the 1630s , Puritans and royalists were engaged in open conflict . Roger Williams grew up amidst this hostility , and one of his biographers even suggests that he might have witnessed the execution of a few ...
... England authorities . In the short term , the greatest gift Williams received from Coke was the means to higher education . With the jurist's sponsorship , Williams enrolled first at Charterhouse and then , in 1624 , at Cambridge's ...
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