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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... natural intellec- tual and moral capacity was on a par with Europeans , Williams observed " a favor of civility and courtesy even among these wild Americans , both among themselves and toward strangers " that served as an indictment of ...
... natural law , Williams asserted that God endows all human beings with a basic capacity for morality , for peaceful coexistence and social coop- eration , independent of religious convictions ( or the lack of them ) . Holding up his ...
... nature of a common honest conscience . Conscientious conviction is subject only to the rules of understanding , which effect change on belief not by force of will but by persuasion , educa- tion , argumentation , and " Search and ...
... natural law . A concept inherited from the catholic Christian tradition , the natural law was " said to consist of all those ... nature or be of no force . " 25 While subscribing to a doctrine of total depravity in matters of salvation ...
... nature , " or " natural wisdom , " that serves as " that Candle or Light " in a person and provides moral direction . With its knowledge of natural law , reason provides a moral compass that differentiates human beings from other ...
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