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.
James Calvin 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. For Williams, the enforcement of religious uniformity
violated the basic values of Calvinist Christianity and presumed
upon God's authority to speak to the individual conscience. He
argued that state coercion was rarely effective, often causing more
harm to the church and strife to the social order than did
religious pluralism.
This is the first collection of Williams's writings in forty
years reaching beyond his major work, "The Bloody Tenent," to
include other selections from his public and private writings. This
carefully annotated book introduces Williams to a new generation of
readers.
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