Separating church and state : Roger Williams and religious liberty
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 dogmatism, Hall argues, is precisely what led to his religious tolerance, making him one of the most articulate champions in history of the argument for the necessary separation of church and state
Law
206 pages ; 24 cm
9780252023606, 9780252066641, 0252023609, 0252066642
36423399
Separation and banishment
The premises of religious establishment in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Challenging the logic of the puritan establishment
Order and "civility"
Roger Williams and the theoretical foundations of the First Amendment
The significance of Roger Williams