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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... church . Like his fellow Puritans , Williams also maintained a certain exclusivity in his religious convictions ; in ... England were going to hell . Indeed , his rejection of that institu- tion as an apostate church helped lead to his ...
... England , probably in 1603 , the year Queen Elizabeth I died and James I ascended to the throne . Though few ... Church of England from the Catholic fold . With the Act of Supremacy in 1534 , Henry declared himself " Supreme Head " of ...
... 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 ...
... England . Coke and Williams's family frequented the same parish church in Smithfield , and it is perhaps there that Coke discovered young Williams , diligently taking notes on the Sunday ser- mon as his schoolteachers required him to do ...
... Church of England and the crown . By making this oath , he promised conformity to the established church's standards for doctrine and liturgical practice , hardly the bold mark of a Puritan in the making . But instead of taking a parish ...
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