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Roger Williams And The Creation Of The American Soul
John M. Barry
Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
Viking
January 2012
On Sale: January 10, 2012
240 pages
ISBN: 0670023051
EAN: 9780670023059
Kindle: B005ERIJ3E
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Non-Fiction History
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.
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