Near the end of his life, Roger Williams, Rhode Island founder
and father of American religious freedom, scrawled an encrypted
essay in the margins of a colonial-era book. For more than 300
years those shorthand notes remained indecipherable ...
... until ...
A team of Brown University undergraduates led by Lucas
Mason-Brown cracked Williams' code after the marginalia languished
for over a century in the archives of the John Carter Brown
Library. At the time of Williams' writing, a trans-Atlantic debate
on infant versus believer's baptism had taken shape that included
London Baptist minister John Norcott and the famous Puritan
"Apostle to the Indians," John Eliot. Amazingly, Williams' code
contained a previously undiscovered essay, which was a
point-by-point refutation of Eliot's book supporting infant
baptism.
History professors Linford D. Fisher and J. Stanley Lemons
immediately recognized the importance of what turned out to be
theologian Roger Williams' final treatise. Decoding Roger Williams
reveals for the first time Williams' translated and annotated
essay, along with a critical essay by Fisher, Lemons, and
Mason-Brown and reprints of the original Norcott and Eliot
tracts.
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