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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.

Contributor:

Davis, James Calvin.

Series:

John Harvard library.

The John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 and private writings on religious liberty, illustrating how this renegade Puritan radically reinterpreted Christian moral theology and the events of his day in a powerful argument for freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Editorial Method

Introduction: Roger Williams and the Birth of an American Ideal

Chapter one. Mr. Cotton's Letter Lately Printed, Examined, and Answered

Chapter two. Queries of Highest Consideration

Chapter three. The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience

Chapter four. Christenings Make Not Christians

Chapter five. The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody

Chapter six. The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler

Chapter seven. The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer

Chapter eight. The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's

Chapter nine. George Fox Digg'd out of His Burrowes

Chapter ten. Selected Letters

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-674-26835-0

0-674-03024-9

OCLC:

923111520