On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008年1月31日 - 288 頁 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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... authority , and the impor- tance of a pure church . Like his fellow Puritans , Williams also maintained a certain exclusivity in his religious convictions ; in other words , Williams be- lieved that because the Puritan worldview was ...
... authorities . In the short term , the greatest gift Williams received from Coke was the means to higher education . With the jurist's sponsorship , Williams enrolled first at Charterhouse and then , in 1624 , at Cambridge's Pembroke ...
... authority of its bishops and , by extension , that of the king who ap- pointed them . A rebuff of the established church , then , was not only a theo- logical statement but political rebellion as well , and those who rejected the church ...
... authority smacked of treason and jeopardized the health of colonies whose relationship with the crown was already tenuous . Whether the precipitating disagreement was over the requirements of separatism or the question of the royal ...
... authority had no right to govern in matters of religion and conscience , arguing that the power of the state extends only over the bodies and goods of its citizens . The increasingly worried Massachusetts General Court monitored ...