Thursday, April 11, 2019

What are some examples of how Roger Williams used the religious theme in From Christenings Make Not Christians and From a Key into the Language of...

It is
impossible to separate the writings of Roger Williams from religious themes, as everything he
wrote (and all of his actions) was about the human conscience and its relationship with God.
Roger Williams was a Dissenter; he left the Church of England in 1631 because he believed it
corrupted the teachings of Jesus. He sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and joined the the
other Puritans in the hopes that the new colony would strip away adherence to the church/state
hierarchy and worship in the purity of conscience-driven Christianity. However, he soon found
himself at odds with the leaders of the colony, particularly on the matters of following ones
conscience as a direct response to God, the separation of church and state, and, in particular,
the ungodly treatment of Native peoples and the taking of their land.

In the
winter of 1636, Roger Williams left Plymouth, having been banished from the colony, and he found
refuge with the Wampanoag Tribe as he recovered from illness....


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