Reading Roger Williams

Author : Avi
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064442169

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Finding Providence by Avi Pdf

The year is 1635, and Mary Williams and her family live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her father, Roger, is on trial for preaching new ideas about freedom. When found guilty, he flees into the cold, telling Mary that she must trust in God's providence to see him to safety. Roger's only hope of survival lies with the Narragansett Indians. Will Mary ever see her father again?

Author : John M. Barry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101554265

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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul by John M. Barry Pdf

A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America. For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and between a free individual and the state. These debates began with the extraordinary thought and struggles of Roger Williams, who had an unparalleled understanding of the conflict between a government that justified itself by "reason of state"-i.e. national security-and its perceived "will of God" and the "ancient rights and liberties" of individuals. This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill." Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of the man who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. The story is essential to the continuing debate over how we define the role of religion and political power in modern American life.

Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Liberty of conscience
ISBN : IND:30000114900826

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The Complete Writings of Roger Williams by Roger Williams Pdf

Author : Linford D. Fisher,J. Stanley Lemons,Lucas Mason-Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Baptism
ISBN : 1481301047

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Decoding Roger Williams by Linford D. Fisher,J. Stanley Lemons,Lucas Mason-Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Linford D. Fisher,Sheila M. McIntyre,Julie A. Fisher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532639456

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Reading Roger Williams by Linford D. Fisher,Sheila M. McIntyre,Julie A. Fisher Pdf

Roger Williams is best known as the founder of Rhode Island who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for his dangerous thoughts on religious liberty. But the city and colony Williams helped to found was deep in Native country situated between the powerful Narragansett and Wampanoag nations. The Williams that emerges from the documents in this collection is immersed in a dynamic world of Native politics, engaged in regional and trans-Atlantic debates and conversations about religious freedom and the separation of church and state, and situated at the crossroads of colonial outposts and powerful Native nations. Williams lived among and relied on the generosity of his Narragansett neighbors and yet he was a Native enslaver and part of a process that dispossessed regional Indigenous populations. He could establish a colony based on full religious freedom and yet bitterly complain and campaign against residents with whom he disagreed, such as Samuel Gorton or the Quakers. For the first time, Reading Roger Williams offers readers the opportunity to explore the many facets of Williams’s life by including selections from all of his writings, starting with his life in London and ending with one of his final letters, written when he was nearly eighty years old. Each document includes an introduction and annotations to help the reader better understand the text and context.

Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781411602199

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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams Pdf

In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that can pass as human, and finds himself instead with one that can pass as a god. Taking the Three Laws of Robotics literally, Prime Intellect makes every human immortal and provides instantly for every stated human desire. Caroline finds no meaning in this life of purposeless ease, and forgets her emptiness only in moments of violent and profane exhibitionism. At turns shocking and humorous, "Prime Intellect" looks unflinchingly at extremes of human behavior that might emerge when all limits are removed. An international Internet phenomenon, "Prime Intellect" has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since its free release in January 2003. It has been read and discussed in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, and other countries. This Lulu edition is your chance to own "Prime Intellect" in conventional book form.

Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557094643

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A Key Into the Language of America by Roger Williams Pdf

A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.

Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035218895

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The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution by Roger Williams Pdf

Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Peachfront Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Passages in the Void by Roger Williams Pdf

The first story in the universe-spanning Mortal Passage trilogy... Challenged to write a hard SF story set in a real universe where humanity faces every challenge-- the speed of light can't be broken, life is rare in the universe, and the Earth is hit hard by disaster after disaster-- the author of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect dreamed up this story. Around 5,500 words, this is one of three stories previously available to read online, but now you can enjoy it freshly reformatted for your favorite device. Note: This story is also collected in The Mortal Passage Trilogy. Search terms include space exploration, transhumanism, post-singularity, hard science fiction, sci-fi, interstellar, and breaking the speed of light.

Author : James Davis Knowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : History
ISBN : BSB:BSB10067994

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Memoir of Roger Williams by James Davis Knowles Pdf

Author : Mary Lee Settle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393323838

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I, Roger Williams by Mary Lee Settle Pdf

Banished by his fellow colonists in the dead of winter, Roger Williams endured years of exile among the Narragansett Indians and narrates this tumultuous tale in the peaceful last years of his life. In this panorama of war and love, the reader finds the freedom of conscience is an idea worth dying for. A "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of 2001.

Author : Roger John Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005295642

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You are Extraordinary by Roger John Williams Pdf

Author : Charles DEANE (of Cambridge, Massachusetts.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026888339

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Roger Williams and the Massachusetts Charter. A Paper Read Before the Massachusetts Historical Society by Charles DEANE (of Cambridge, Massachusetts.) Pdf

Author : Roger DAVIS,Roger Williams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674030244

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On Religious Liberty by Roger DAVIS,Roger Williams Pdf

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. 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.

Author : Edwin Scott Gaustad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Baptists
ISBN : 051701338X

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Liberty of Conscience by Edwin Scott Gaustad Pdf