On religious liberty : selections from the works of Roger Williams

On religious liberty : selections from the works of Roger Williams / edited and with an Introduction by James Calvin Davis.

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. Davis gathers together important selections from Williams's public...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683
Other Authors: Davis, James Calvin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Series:John Harvard library.
Subjects:
Freedom of religion.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
RELIGION > Christianity > Calvinist.
Freedom of religion
Religionsfreiheit
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Roger Williams and the birth of an American ideal
  • Mr. Cotton's letter lately printed, examined, and answered
  • Queries of highest consideration
  • The bloody tenent of persecution for cause of conscience
  • Christenings make not Christians
  • The bloody tenent yet more bloody
  • The fourth paper presented by Major Butler
  • The examiner defended in a fair and sober answer
  • The hireling ministry none of Christ's
  • George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes
  • Selected letters.

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