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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... moral 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 ...
... moral reform , but blanket use of the term " Puritan " by modern students of the period risks obscuring the deep differences between these groups . In the seventeenth century , too , the term " Puritan " was sometimes used ...
... moral beings . He also developed deep friendships with several of their leaders , none more intense than his relationship with Canonicus , chieftain of the Narragansetts . It was Canonicus who would grant Williams the initial property ...
... moral capacity was on a par with Europeans , Williams observed " a favor of civility and courtesy even among these ... morality— not religious uniformity — was the secret to a stable and flourishing human society.7 Williams's good ...
... morality through the punishment of minority religions . In Queries Williams fired a single shot over the bow of religious establish- ment , but in the summer of 1644 he would provide a more sustained attack . A decade earlier John ...