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	Biography of Roger Willams
		Roger Williams was a Separatist Anglo-American theologian, advocate of liberty of conscience, and founder of Rhode Island; b.
		Williams maintained that it was Christ's sole prerogative to have his office established by oath, and that unregenerate men ought not in any case to be invited to perform any religious act.
		Williams himself probably knew of the Arminian antipedobaptist party of which John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, and John Murton were founders (1609) and of the rich literature in advocacy of liberty of conscience produced by this party after its return to England.
	www.tlogical.net /biorwilliams.htm (1937 words)

	Roger Williams (theologian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roger Williams (December 21, 1603–April 1, 1684) was an Anglo-American theologian, a notable proponent of the separation of Church and State, an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, founder of the City of Providence, Rhode Island and co-founder of the state of Rhode Island.
		Williams maintained that it was Christ's sole prerogative to have his office established by oath, and that unregenerate men ought not in any case to be invited to perform any religious act.
		Williams himself probably knew of the Arminian antipedobaptist party of which John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, and John Murton were founders (1609) and of the rich literature in advocacy of liberty of conscience produced by this party after its return to England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Williams_(theologian) (2633 words)

	Roger Williams (theologian) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Roger Williams (December 21, 1603–April 1, 1684) was an Anglo-American theologian, a notable proponent of the separation of Church and State, an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, founder of the City of Providence, Rhode Island a co-founder of Rhode Island.
		Williams was born in Long Lane, Middlesex (defunct county, now part of Greater London), England on December 21, 1603.His father, James Williams (1562-1620), was a merchant in Smithfield, England.
		Some time before the end of 1630, Williams adopted a standpoint of dissent and decided that he could not labor in England under Archbishop William Laud's rigorous administration.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Roger_Williams_(theologian) (2586 words)

	Providence Homes guide
		Located at the head of the Narragansett Bay on the Providence River near the Atlantic coast, the city is intersected by two rivers and is built on three hills.
		First settled in 1636 by theologian Roger Williams, the city was one of the first cities to industrialize in the nation.
		It has also gained a long standing reputation as a leader in the jewelry and silverware industry.
	www.providencehomesguide.com (177 words)

	4a: Early Enlightenment Precursors to Religious Humanism
		William Penn (1644-1718), who founded Pennsylvania in 1681, was another famous Quaker who had been imprisoned for his views, and who helped pass the Act of Toleration.
		In the 1600’s Penn, along with Roger Williams (1604?-1683) introduced the concept of separation of church and state in America.
		Roger Williams was a Puritan minister who described himself as a “Seeker” after the true church.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/humanism/86312/2 (428 words)

	Roger Williams by Dramatic Distinctives
		Chief among William's heretical views was that Williams sought equitable trading practices and land acquisitions between the colonies and native Americans.
		Hearing Rogers story, congregations today gain insights to the strengths and weaknesses of their church organizational structure and an understanding of the Baptist's role in creating the American experiment with democracy.
		The Bloody Tenent of Persecution, Roger Williams
	www.dramaticdistinctives.info /roger_williams.htm (330 words)

	Struggle for Liberty: The Baptists, The Bible and Church-State Conflict in Colonial America
		Williams carefully scrutinized the theological and socio-political assumptions of the Congregational establishment.
		William’s attempt to separate church and state is centered in his efforts to delineate what he believed to be the mutually exclusive roles of the church and the state.
		Roger Williams drew upon this literary tradition for his arguments for religious freedom, and against religious establishments.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~26686.aspx (1660 words)

	Roger I - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ROGER I [Roger I] (Roger Guiscard), c.1031-1101, Norman conqueror of Sicily; son of Tancred de Hauteville (see Normans).
		Robert's death (1085) left Roger the most powerful Norman lord in S Italy, and he ruled the various ethnic groups in his feudal domain justly and tolerantly.
		John Updike as theologian of culture: Roger's Version and the possibility of embodied redemption.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/r/roger1.asp (297 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Roger
		Flor, Roger de FLOR, ROGER DE [Flor, Roger de] d.
		Roger of Hoveden ROGER OF HOVEDEN [Roger of Hoveden], d.
		Roger Williams National Memorial ROGER WILLIAMS NATIONAL MEMORIAL [Roger Williams National Memorial] see National Parks and Monuments (table).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Roger&StartAt=11 (530 words)

	Brother Roger; theologian sought to awaken spirituality in young people \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The Swiss theologian, a Protestant, was the leader of a worldwide ecumenical movement he founded as a commune in the French village of Taize in 1940.
		Brother Roger's reputation was largely secure after he won the prestigious Templeton Prize for progress in religion in 1974 and the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in 1988, among other honors.
		Brother Roger was born Roger Schutz on May 12, 1915, in Provence, a small town in Switzerland, the son of a Swiss Calvinist pastor and a French Protestant mother.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050821/news_lz1j21roger.html (1002 words)

	Roger Williams (1603 -1683) - The PuritanBoard
		According to Williams, because of a breakdown in the apostolic office it needed to be restored or reestablished.
		When Roger Williams charged the Quakers with denying a visible way of worship--that is, churches, ministers, baptism and other cardinal ministerial practices, the Quakers countered by pointing out Williams' inconsistency in affirming such a teaching of the Baptists but refusing to become actively identified with them (Writings, V, 384-85).
		Roger Williams believed (and it was a belief shared by most of the Puritans) that Indians were born white.
	www.puritanboard.com /f18/roger-williams-1603-1683-a-29759 (4198 words)

	Roger Williams
		Williams was a Puritan minister who was banished from Massachusetts Bay for his heretical ideas of extreme separatism and separation of church and state, and his insistence that the colony's land must be purchased from the Indians.
		Roger Williams theologian, Roger Williams theologian - Early Life, Roger Williams theologian - Removal to America, Roger Williams theologian - Relations With Native Americans, Roger Williams theologian - Life at Salem Distinctive Views.
		Wade, Roger Taney, Roger Williams, romanticism, Romer v.
	www.experiencefestival.com /roger_williams (2214 words)

	The Liberal Protestant Tradition in America
		Roger Williams (1603-83), founder of Rhode Island and promoter of religious freedom.
		Jacob Arminius (1560-1609), Dutch Reformed theologian whose views on human freedom were condemned at the Synod of Dort in 1618.
		A critic of Calvinist doctrines of salvation, Channing's sermon, "Unitarian Christianity," preached at an ordination in Baltimore, was a foundational document for the theological liberalism that became the Unitarian movement.
	www.etss.edu /hts/hts5/notes8.htm (671 words)

	Roger Williams Biography
		Although Roger Williams by no means originated the concept of separation of church and state or the notion that one's religious beliefs are inviolably private matters, it is for these two principles that he is best known.
		WILLIAMS, ROGER (1603–1683), English and American Puritan minister and prophet of religious liberty, founder of Rhode Island.
		Roger Williams (December 21, 1603–April 1, 1683) was an English theologian, a notable proponent of the separation of church and state, an advocate for fair dealings with Native Americans, founder of the city of Providence, Rhode Island and...
	www.bookrags.com /Roger_Williams_(theologian) (314 words)

	Challies Dot Com: DVD Review - Roger Williams - Freedom's Forgotten Hero
		Roger Williams was founder of the state of Rhode Island and the Baptism movement in America.
		Williams believed that the church and the civil authorities must remain seperate.
		Williams' strong beliefs led to his banishment from Massachusetts.
	www.challies.com /archives/001290.php (779 words)

	Mrs. Bush Praises Female Afghan Graduates
		Three Initiative participants received their bachelor's degrees from Roger Williams at the May 20 ceremony, all with academic honors.
		Bush described how a group of Muslim and Christian Roger Williams students -- hailing from India, Morocco, Jordan and the United States -- traveled to New Orleans, where they rebuilt an elderly woman's house that had been destroyed during the hurricanes of 2005.
		Roger Williams University is a private, co-educational liberal arts college founded in 1956 and named for Roger Williams, the theologian who founded the Providence colony that became Rhode Island.
	usinfo.state.gov /xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=May&x=20060522142453jmnamdeirf6.621951e-02 (597 words)

	Roger Williams: Family History - Willliam Green
		William Green was born in Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, in 1715 and baptized on 29 April at the parish church of St Mary Magdalene.
		William Jones (1746-1794) was an orientalist, judge in Calcutta, author of a Persian Grammar and numerous translations from Sanskrit.
		William Green's first published work, in 1753, was a translation of The Song of Deborah (from Judges 5), together with a new translation of David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan (2 Samuel, 1:19-27).
	www.roger-williams.net /family_history/william_green/william_green.htm (12177 words)

	Faith and Theology: Ten propositions on being a minister
		Breaking “the strange silence of the Bible in the church” (James Smart), they must ensure that the scriptures are at the centre of congregational life, and that their churches are cultures of learning.
		If we think in broader terms that peer-reviewed papers with footnotes, then I think all ministers are called to be scholars, although that certainly doesn't exhaust their calling.
		Williams reminded "all Christ's scholars" of their duty to "try all things" to see what is of God.
	faith-theology.blogspot.com /2007/05/ten-propositions-on-being-minister.html (3958 words)

	Thousands Attend Funeral of Taizé Ecumenical Leader \| Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian World News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mourners pray during Brother Roger's funeral outside the Reconcilation church in the Burgundy village of Taize, central France, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005.
		Solcan's doctor in Romania said she suffered from schizophrenic problems and was off prescribed medication at the time of the attack.
		The death of the Swiss-born Protestant theologian last week shocked the community and elicited messages of grief from around the world.
	world.christianpost.com /article/20050823/8435.htm (485 words)

	Roger Williams: Family History - The Brann Family at Wittersham
		In 1880, when the schoolmaster was William Day, his wife Mary was the schoolmistress, their daughter Margaret was a monitor, and the assistant mistress, Emma Reeder, boarded with them.
		William Cobbett, who, in his rides about the country observed this poverty at first hand, wrote "never will these people lie down and starve quietly"; and they did not.
		William married Katherine Jenner in 1848 and lived at 60 Back Road for many years, and Jane married William Larkins of Bates Farm in 1856.
	www.roger-williams.net /family_history/brann_family/brann_family.htm (10044 words)

	Roger Williams Fellowship - President's Reflections
		Since 1935, the Roger Williams Fellowship has taken seriously the need of raising awareness of Baptist principles and engaging the current controversies of our denominational family with integrity and open dialogue.
		The Roger Williams Fellowship asks that American Baptists join in careful and considered discourse about the Baptist principles that unite us in all our diversity.
		In Confessing the Faith (Augsburg Fortress, 1998), Hall speaks to the necessity of confessing a faith that engages the believer firmly in the context that they are currently living within while sometimes having to live against the grain of that context as Gospel and context diverge.
	rogerwilliamsfellowship.squarespace.com /presidents-reflections (1015 words)

	Early Discovery & Settlement (5)
		An interpretation of Puritan doctrine associated with Anne Hutchinson that stressed mystical elements in God's grace and diverged from orthodox Puritan views on salvation.
		This Puritan theologian was the leader of the first Great Awakening in New England.
		He led an uprising in New York in the name of King William IV against the Anglo-Dutch ruling elite.
	www.historyteacher.net /USProjects/Quizzes5-6/EarlySettlement5.htm (456 words)

	MORRIS - QUOTATIONS - AUTHORS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Best known as an existentialist theologian and philosopher, Nicholas Berdyaev (there are several different transliterations of the Russian name) also participated in the Bolshevik revolution.
		A German theologian and pastor, who, as a leader of the "Confessing Church" during the Nazi era, was persecuted.
		Clift, Wallace B. Canon Theologian for the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado.
	www.fiu.edu /~morriss/bookword/quoauthbibbio.html (3832 words)

	Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church
		Prepared to transform the College of William and Mary into the principal university of the state, Jefferson would do so only if the college divested itself of all ties with sectarian religion--that is, with its old Anglicanism now represented by the Protestant Episcopal Church.
		Moreover, Roger Williams' cogent and prophetic arguments in behalf of religious freedom were forgotten in the eighteenth century; they could not exert any influence on those who finally worked out the doctrine of religious freedom enshrined in the national Constitution.
		To Williams the Puritan, the great justification for freedom of religion was the preservation of the purity of the Church; to the deistic Virginians, the important goal was the removal of a religious threat to the purity and freedom of the State.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/ed_buckner/quotations.html (18874 words)

	Wi: Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
		If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
		William by the grace of God King of the English, to R Bainard and G de Magnavilla, and P de Valoines, and to my other faithful ones of Essex and of Hertfordshire and of Middlesex, greeting.
		An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state confounds the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/quote-w1.htm (2561 words)

	PublicEye.org - Why the Christian Right Distorts History and Why it Matters
		1159.) Of course, Barton completely ignores Roger William's reference 150 years earlier to the "hedge or wall of separation between the garden of church and the wilderness of the world." (Perry Miller, Roger Williams: His Contribution to the American Tradition, p.
		89.) It is clear that Williams, a Baptist pioneer, saw the advantage to the church of a clear boundary erected between itself and the state.
		Thus, Williams and Jefferson understood the benefits to both the church and state of keeping those two entities separate and distinct.
	www.publiceye.org /magazine/v21n2/history.html (3998 words)

	Welcome to Whatley Chapel
		Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, scholastic theologian, related knowledge and faith, science and revelation.
		Albert Schweitzer, theologian and scholar, organist and musician, medical doctor and missionary.
		Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island and a defender of religious freedom.
	www.jwu.edu /Denver/chapel/window_desc.htm (1747 words)

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