On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008 M01 31 - 288 páginas 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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... Calvinism . As a Puritan , Williams was committed to a clas- sically Calvinist worldview that emphasized the sovereignty of God , the ut- ter sinfulness of human beings , the necessity of divine grace for salvation , the primacy of the ...
... Calvinist tone , but in 1553 Edward was succeeded by Mary , the Catholic daughter of Henry and Catherine . Fueled by her memory of a spurned and humiliated mother , Mary brutally restored Catholicism to the English church , making ...
... Calvinist Presbyterianism thrived ; surely he would have greater sympathy for the Calvinist cause than Elizabeth's careful politics had allowed . While Elizabeth had failed to satisfy the Puritans ' long- ings , however , they quickly ...
... Calvinism . " Williams studied for the ministry at Cambridge , and upon graduation he signed the Subscription Book , a testament to the orthodoxy of his faith and his loyalty to the Church of England and the crown . By making this oath ...
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