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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... social and legal norms . Williams desired religious liberty for everyone , including the very groups whose religion he most despised . In establishing Rhode Island as a safe haven for conscientious conviction , he argued that such ...
... social obligation and cooperation , Williams was better pre- pared to deal with the " hard cases " of conscientious social deviance than were Enlightenment thinkers , whose proposals characteristically were based on a thinner conception ...
... social objective . Religious laxity would endanger the church and by doing so would also threaten the most important source for moral education and social cohesion in the colony.15 Religious deviance 14. The second half of The Bloody ...
... social good that right religion be maintained , the Puritans saw little problem in commissioning the state with the au- thority to pursue that good . Most Puritans ( and most seventeenth - century Christians ) believed that the Bible ...
... social behavior to civil righteousness , to reconcile us with one another , and to promote general peace and tran- quility . " 20 While the magistrate had no authority to meddle in the internal duties of the clergy , he was responsible ...
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