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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... 237 8. The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's 249 9. George Fox Digg'd out of His Burrowes 261 10. Selected Letters 270 Index 285 1 Acknowledgments Several individuals and institutions provided valuable assistance to this.
... ministry at Cambridge , and upon graduation he signed the Subscription Book , a testament to the orthodoxy of his faith and his loyalty to the Church of England and the crown . By making this oath , he promised conformity to the ...
... minister " in his journal , and Williams's emerging repu- tation as a minister of integrity and charisma soon led the leaders of the Boston church — the most prominent church in the colony — to offer Wil- liams a position . Boston's ...
... minister whose arrival in the Bay Colony was celebrated in the highest ranks , espoused separatism . Massachu- setts Bay Colony was governed by leaders and ministers who were mostly nonseparatist in ecclesiology and who preferred to ...
... minister John Cotton over the subject of his banishment . Cotton ( 1584-1652 ) had been a leader of some prominence in 8. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff , ed . , Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England ( 1628 ...
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