9780393304039-0393304035-Roger Williams: The Church and the State

Roger Williams: The Church and the State

ISBN-13: 9780393304039
ISBN-10: 0393304035
Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback 186 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393304039
ISBN-10: 0393304035
Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback 186 pages

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Roger Williams: The Church and the State (ISBN-13: 9780393304039 and ISBN-10: 0393304035), written by authors Edmund S. Morgan, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2007. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, Religious, Leaders & Notable People, Colonial Period, United States History, State & Local) books. You can easily purchase or rent Roger Williams: The Church and the State (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest―and most passionate―advocate for the total separation of church and state.

A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded what would become Rhode Island. As Morgan re-creates the evolution of Williams's thoughts on the nature of the church and the state, he captures with characteristic economy and precision the institutions that informed Williams's worldview, from the Protestant church in England to the Massachusetts government in the seventeenth century. In doing so, Morgan reveals the origins of a perennial―and heated―American debate, told through the ideas of one of the most brilliant polemicists on the subject, a man whose mind, as Morgan describes, "drove him to examine accepted ideas and carry them to unacceptable conclusions." Forty years after its first publication, Roger Williams remains essential reading for anyone interested in the church, the state, and the right relation of the two.
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