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Potash (Hardcover)
Sydney J. (Sydney James) Johnstone
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R791
Discovery Miles 7 910
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John Clarke and His Legacies is the first full-length biography
of John Clarke (1609-76), a principal founder of colonial Rhode
Island. Although Roger Williams usually gets most of the attention,
Sydney James shows that Clarke made a lasting contribution to the
colony--perhaps more so than Williams. Williams was the first
Baptist minister in America, but he left his church after a very
short time. And although Williams won the first charter for Rhode
Island, the charter soon had to be replaced. Clarke, however,
founded the first Baptist church in Newport, where he continued to
contribute to the Baptist community. And in 1663 he procured the
royal charter that would remain the foundation of government in
Rhode Island until 1842.
This inquiry into Clarke's life engages a variety of intriguing
topics. It surveys a formative stage in American Baptist history,
one that spurned dependency upon government more thoroughly than
any part of the United States does today. Through the experience of
Clark, we see pioneering American religious volunteerism, problems
of church-state relations, and the peculiar nature of colonial
relations with the parent country.
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