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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... prayers and a calendar of feast days that encouraged ( to their mind ) excessive occasions for revelry . Furthermore , the doctrine prop- agated by Elizabeth's advisors provided a theological latitude that offended Calvinist ...
... Prayer over that of the Bible , and evinced a lax sense of internal discipline . In order to protect the purity of the church , therefore , separatist Puritans believed that they must renounce the official church and gather in new ...
... prayer , an act of worship . To re- quire this act of all residents , then , was to enforce a religious practice that he believed could violate the consciences of both unbelievers ( who may not subscribe to the implicit religious ...
... prayer , and powers of persuasion . Accord- ing to Williams , in the life and death of Jesus Christ , God had radically changed the way he related to human beings . No people retained " most fa- vored nation " status any longer ; God ...
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