On Religious Liberty - Selections From the Works of Roger Williams

Informationen zum Autor James Calvin Davis is Professor of Religion at Middlebury College. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

List of contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Editorial Method xi Introduction: Roger Williams and the Birth of an American Ideal 1 1. Mr. Cotton's Letter Lately Printed, Examined, and Answered 00 2. Queries of Highest Consideration 000 3. The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience 000 4. Christenings Make Not Christians 000 5. The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody 000 6. The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler 000 7. The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer 000 8. The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's 000 9. George Fox Digg'd out of His Burrowes 10. Selected Letters 000 Index 000

Product details

• Authors: James Calvin Davis, Roger Williams
• Assisted by: James Calvin Davis (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780674026858
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02685-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: John Harvard Library; John Harvard Library (Paperbac; The John Harvard Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous