On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31 בינו׳ 2008 - 288 עמודים 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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... Church was the arm of the Antichrist , and they assumed that Native Ameri- cans worshipped the devil . In fact , Williams's intolerance was too radical even for his fellow Puritans , for he was sure that most of his brethren in the Church ...
... Church of England , dissolved the extensive property holdings of Catholic monasteries in the country , and consolidated control of the church under the crown . England was thus made officially a Protestant nation , but because the ...
... church and state with the New England authorities . In the short term , the greatest gift Williams received from ... Church of England and the crown . By making this oath , he promised conformity to the established church's standards for ...
... church — the most prominent church in the colony — to offer Wil- liams a position . Boston's current teacher ( the Puritan title for an assistant pastor ) , John Wilson , needed to return to England to persuade his wife to join him in ...
... Church of England was hopelessly entangled in Roman polity , el- evated the importance of the Book of Prayer over that of the Bible , and evinced a lax sense of internal discipline . In order to protect the purity of the church ...
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