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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... Papists , Protestants , [ and ] Pagans . " In fact , a " conscience of good and evil " was something that even " every savage Indian in the world has , " a fact that he confirmed in his substantial interactions with the Native Americans ...
... Papists , " Span- ish " Turks , " New England governors , English kings , and American sachems all could and should — recognize the moral imperative to religious free- dom , because that freedom was not solely dependent on the authority ...
... papists in an impossibility of yielding civil obedience " when it was empirically verifiable that Catholics had been and could be perfectly capable of civility . His time with the Native Americans likewise confirmed to him the ...
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