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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... charge that he had masterminded the Puritan deviant's banishment from the Bay Colony . On the contrary , Cotton insisted , he had tried hard to mediate be- tween the Court and Williams and worked to soften the Court's judgment , until ...
... charge seemed con- firmed by their resistance to civil authority as well . The Quakers were noto- rious for ignoring common social conventions ( such as keeping one's hair cropped ) and public laws of decency and order ( such as ...
... charge Williams with contradicting his own defense of religious freedom , though he would counter that occasion- ally incursion upon personal liberty was necessary to ensure the common good . At any rate , his ambiguous response to the ...
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