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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger Williams; James Calvin Davis |
ISBN: | 9780674026223 0674026225 9780674026858 0674026853 |
OCLC Number: | 1062093473 |
Description: | xii, 288 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments Editorial Method Introduction: Roger Williams and the Birth of an American Ideal 1. Mr. Cotton's Letter Lately Printed, Examined, and Answered 2. Queries of Highest Consideration 3. The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience 4. Christenings Make Not Christians 5. The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody 6. The Fourth Paper Presented by Major Butler 7. The Examiner Defended in a Fair and Sober Answer 8. The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's 9. George Fox Digg'd out of His Burrowes 10. Selected Letters Index |
Series Title: | John Harvard library. |
Responsibility: | edited and with an Introduction by James Calvin Davis. |
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A major contribution to our understanding of the history of religion in America, this book speaks to issues of church and state and freedom of conscience that still resonate today. -- Charles T. Mathewes, University of Virginia Williams's writings have long been virtually unavailable to the general public. Now Harvard University Press has published On Religious Liberty: Selections From the Works of Roger Williams, edited by scholar James Calvin Davis. Davis provides around three hundred pages of Williams's writings...Davis has a keen eye for the telling passage, and he arranges the extracts helpfully, adding a lucid introduction. His fine volume will be especially useful for purposes of teaching, and it will sustain us while we await a more complete re-issue of the major works and letters. -- Martha Nussbaum * New Republic * Read more...

