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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... respect for human dig- nity and the integrity of the conscience , and a genuine appreciation for the importance of social obligation and cooperation , Williams was better pre- pared to deal with the " hard cases " of conscientious ...
... respect for them as moral beings . He also developed deep friendships with several of their leaders , none more intense than his relationship with Canonicus , chieftain of the Narragansetts . It was Canonicus who would grant Williams ...
... respect of knowledge of God and laws of men ) as the English have , yet a man shall never hear of such crimes among them — robberies , murders , and adulteries [ for instance ] -as among the English . " Noting that their natural ...
... respect reli- gious liberty but protect it . In articulating these positions , first in The Bloody Tenent and then in several texts published during his return to London in 1652 , Williams argued on three fronts : the theological , the ...
... respect for vari- ations in conscience than he observed in his own society , certainly more than he himself experi- enced in the Massachusetts Bay Colony . See , for instance , Key , 129 . in other words , a conscience could be wrong ...
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