Roger Williams, Natural Law, and Religious Liberty
The seventeenth-century colonial Puritan Roger Williams remains a celebrated advocate for religious liberty. The copious number of texts devoted to Williams testifies to his longstanding legacy throughout history and to the idea of religious freedom.1 Roger Williams’s doctrine for religious liberty...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2021]
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-108 |
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Natural law
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| IxTheo Classification: | SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | The seventeenth-century colonial Puritan Roger Williams remains a celebrated advocate for religious liberty. The copious number of texts devoted to Williams testifies to his longstanding legacy throughout history and to the idea of religious freedom.1 Roger Williams’s doctrine for religious liberty did not arise from the auspices of a religious zealot’s imagination. Instead, he discovered this pre-political liberty as founded in a biblical–theological paradigm and attested to through natural law. His biblical and theological justification for religious liberty has a home in a vast array of articles and books. Few, however, have asserted Williams as a natural lawyer.2 Williams’s... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa003 |