Author: Roger WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberty of conscience
Languages : en
Pages :
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Complete Writings: Key into the language of America. Letter of Mr. John Cotton. Mr. Cotton's letter examined and answered
Author: Roger WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberty of conscience
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Key into the language of America. Letter of Mr. John Cotton. Mr. Cotton's letter examined and answered
Author: Roger WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberty of conscience
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Key into the language of America. Letter of Mr. John Cotton. Mr. Cotton's letter examined and answered
Author: Roger WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberty of conscience
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, Volume 1
Author: Roger WilliamsPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725220458
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Ten years after the U. S. Civil War, a group of men in Rhode Island made a conserted effort to rescue the widely scattered writings of Roger Williams. Few sets were printed though, and under the guidance of Perry Miller, The Complete Writings of Roger Williams were brought back in 1963, but still in short numbers. The present collection now makes these volumes available to readers in their original orthography. The theme of religious liberty is dominant in these volumes, running through Williams's correspondence with John Cotton and on through his famous pair of works on The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution. All of the extant shorter writings and letters of Roger Williams are included in this set, along with two significant works resulting from his engagement with Native Americans: his seminal Key into the Language of America and Christenings Make Not Christians.
The Complete Writings of Roger Williams: Key into the language of America. Letter of Mr. John Cotton. Mr. Cotton's letter examined and answered
Author: Roger WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberty of conscience
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War
Author: Richard W. CogleyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
No previous work on John Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Richard Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves deeply into Eliot's theological writings and describes the historical development of Eliot's missionary work. By relating the two, he presents fresh perspectives that challenge widely accepted assessments of the Puritan mission. Cogley incorporates Eliot's eschatology into the history of the mission, takes into account the biographies of the proselytes (the "praying Indians") and the individual histories of the Christian Indian settlements (the "praying towns"), and corrects misperceptions about the mission's role in English expansion. He also addresses other interpretive problems in Eliot's mission, such as why the Puritans postponed their evangelizing mission until 1646, why Indians accepted or rejected the mission, and whether the mission played a role in causing King Philip's War. This book makes signal contributions to New England history, Native American history, and religious studies.
Roger Williams: The Church and the State
Author: Edmund S. MorganPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347834
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest—and most passionate—advocate for the total separation of church and state. A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded what would become Rhode Island. As Morgan re-creates the evolution of Williams's thoughts on the nature of the church and the state, he captures with characteristic economy and precision the institutions that informed Williams's worldview, from the Protestant church in England to the Massachusetts government in the seventeenth century. In doing so, Morgan reveals the origins of a perennial—and heated—American debate, told through the ideas of one of the most brilliant polemicists on the subject, a man whose mind, as Morgan describes, "drove him to examine accepted ideas and carry them to unacceptable conclusions." Forty years after its first publication, Roger Williams remains essential reading for anyone interested in the church, the state, and the right relation of the two.
Separating Church and State
Author: Timothy HallPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066641
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Roger Williams, founder of the colony of Rhode Island, is famous as an apostle of religious tolerance and a foe of religious establishments. In Separating Church and State, Timothy Hall combines impressive historical and legal scholarship to explore Williams's theory of religious liberty and relate it to current debate. Williams's fierce religious dogmaticism, Hall argues, is precisely what led to his religious tolerance, making him one of the most articulate champions of the argument for the necessary separation of church and state. "Both timely and provocative. . . . Offers Williams's largely overlooked but deeply important perspective on the peaceful coexistence of committed believers of diverse faiths. The book also brings into question crucial tenets of the United States Supreme Court's First Amendment religion clause jurisprudence at a time when many are raising questions about it." -- Marci A. Hamilton, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York City "Hall has the entire Williams corpus under his command, and he plays the relevant texts like a master organist. He also has the legal corpus equally at his fingertips. One of the great strengths of his book is that it bridges the too often separate fields of history and jurisprudence." -- Edwin Gaustad, author of Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America
Folded Selves
Author: Michelle BurnhamPublisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN: 1611686849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Folded Selves radically refigures traditional portraits of seventeenth-century New England literature and culture by situating colonial writing within the spatial, transnational, and economic contexts that characterized the early-modern "world system" theorized by Immanuel Wallerstein and others. Michelle Burnham rethinks American literary history and the politics of colonial dissent, and her book breaks new ground in making the economic relations of investment, credit, and trade central to this new framework for early American literary and cultural study. Transcontinental colonialism and mercantile capitalism underwrote not just the emerging world system but New World writing -- suggesting that early modern literary aesthetics and the early modern economy helped to sponsor each other. Burnham locates in New England's literature of dissent -- from Ma-re Mount to the Salem witchcraft trials -- a persistent use of economic language, as well as competing economies of style. The brilliance of Burnham's study is that it exposes the transoceanic material and commercial concerns of colonial America's literature and culture of dissent.
The Cambridge History of American Literature
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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