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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... civil crimes . Whether or not Williams was right to conclude that he was being punished for his religion ( the General Court articulated the charges against him in almost exclusively civil terms , but Cotton later let slip that Williams ...
... civil government has as its ap- pointed end . . . to cherish and protect the outward worship of God , to de- fend sound doctrine of piety and the position of the church , to adjust our life to the society of men , to form our social ...
... civil magis- trates , and he rejected the idea that religious uniformity was necessary to the health of either church or civil society . The dark underside of a social policy of religious uniformity , argued Williams , is the ...
... civil powers should not only respect reli- gious liberty but protect it . In articulating these positions , first in The Bloody Tenent and then in several texts published during his return to London in 1652 , Williams argued on three ...
... civil and religious authorities were obliged to offer correction , first privately and then publicly as necessary . If dissenters persisted in the claim of " conscientious objection " even after being shown the error of their ways ...
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