On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 31. 1. 2008. - 288 страница 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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... more vocal , more organized , and more popular through- out her reign . When Elizabeth died in 1603 , the Puritans looked to the transition from the Tudor line to the Stuart kings with cautious optimism 4 INTRODUCTION.
... kings with cautious optimism . James was king of Scotland , after all , where Calvinist Presbyterianism thrived ; surely he would have greater sympathy for the Calvinist cause than Elizabeth's careful politics had allowed . While ...
... king who ap- pointed them . A rebuff of the established church , then , was not only a theo- logical statement but political rebellion as well , and those who rejected the church risked facing all the normal consequences of treason ...
... king's charters on which the English colonies were founded . The land in New England be- longed to the Americans , Williams asserted , so it was not the king's place to be granting permission for the English to settle on it ; instead ...
... King Charles I , the Calvinist - dominated Parliament in 1643 called into being the Westmin- ster Assembly , a group of divines commissioned to recommend a thorough reform of the Church of England . As thanks for their pledge of ...
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