Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father
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: Near the end of his life, Roger Williams, Rhode Island founder and father of American religious freedom, scrawled an encrypted essay in the margins of a colonial-era book. For more than 300 years those shorthand notes remained indecipherable... ...
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Near the end of his life, Roger Williams, Rhode Island founder and father of American religious freedom, scrawled an encrypted essay in the margins of a colonial-era book. For more than 300 years those shorthand notes remained indecipherable...
...until a team of Brown University undergraduates led by Lucas Mason-Brown cracked Williams' code after the marginalia languished for over a century in the archives of the John Carter Brown Library. At the time of Williams' writing, a trans-Atlantic debate on infant versus believer's baptism had taken shape that included London Baptist minister John Norcott and the famous Puritan "Apostle to the Indians," John Eliot. Amazingly, Williams' code contained a previously undiscovered essay, which was a point-by-point refutation of Eliot's book supporting infant baptism.
History professors Linford D. Fisher and J. Stanley Lemons immediately recognized the importance of what turned out to be theologian Roger Williams' final treatise. Decoding Roger Williams reveals for the first time Williams' translated and annotated essay, along with a critical essay by Fisher, Lemons, and Mason-Brown and reprints of the original Norcott and Eliot tracts.
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PRODUCT DETAIL
- Catalogue Code 502016
- Product Code 9781481301046
- ISBNÂ 1481301047
- EANÂ 9781481301046
- Pages 212
- Department Academic
- Category History
- Sub-Category General
- Publisher Baylor University Press
- Publication Date Aug 2014
- Dimensions 228 x 152 x 22mm
- Weight 0.498kg
Lucas Mason-brown
Lucas Mason-Brown is a graduate student in mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin.
- :<p>list Of Figures And Maps</p><p>acknowledgments</p><p>foreword By Ted Widmer</p><p>a Key Into The Language Of Roger Williams: Cracking And Interpreting The Roger Williams Code</p><p>roger Williams: "a Brief Reply To A Small Book Written By John Eliot" (1679-1683)</p><p>john Norcott, <i>baptism Discovered Plainly And Faithfully According To The Word Of God</i> (1675 [1672])</p><p>john Eliot, <i>a Brief Answer To A Small Book Written By John Norcot Against Infant-baptisme</i> (1679)</p><p>further Reading And Research</p><p>index</p>
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