On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008 M01 31 - 288 pages 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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... expression to amount to more than opinions , which compelled Williams to advocate for a sphere of protection around religious practices while also recognizing that the pursuit of the common good might occasionally justify the IV.
... common good might occasionally justify the violation of that protection . In these and other ways , Williams's vision for religious lib- erty is richer in both scope and depth than that of more prominent de- fenders . What is ...
... common practice at the time for Puritan - leaning clergymen to serve as chaplains or lecturers for the estates of sympathizers in order to es- cape the direct supervision of ecclesiastical powers to whom they could not , in good ...
... common dis- satisfaction with the official church , their responses to the abuses they ob- served divided them into two camps . Many of the Puritans considered them- selves faithful members of the official church despite — or , more ...
... common morality— not religious uniformity — was the secret to a stable and flourishing human society.7 Williams's good relationship with the local tribes would enable him later to serve as an effective mediator between the Native ...
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