The Subversive Puritan

Name: The Subversive Puritan
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Full title: The Subversive Puritan: Roger Williams and freedom of conscience and church and state. How shall we live together in the light of our very deep differences? Christian author Os Guinness has said this is the greatest problem...

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Full title: The Subversive Puritan: Roger Williams and freedom of conscience and church and state. How shall we live together in the light of our very deep differences? Christian author Os Guinness has said this is the greatest problem facing the United States today and the same could be said for the West' as a whole. Can a seventeenth-century Calvinist contribute anything? In recent years a number of authors, popular and academic, Christian and secular, have found inspiration in Roger Williams, the rebel Puritan exiled from Massachusetts who founded Rhode Island. He made the new little state a haven for those oppressed for conscience' and wrenched church and state further apart than was anywhere known at that time. Its Charter was the first in the world to protect liberty of conscience. Williams is rewarded with a statue at the Reformation Wall in Geneva, yet he remains strangely unknown today, even by those who stand broadly in his religious heritage. At the level of biography, history, theology, political philosophy or the human rights debate, this book will inform, stimulate, provoke and possibly irritate-but Roger Williams is well worth introducing to the discussion as we face changing times in church and society.

PRODUCT DETAIL

Catalogue Code 581078
Product Code 9781783972470
ISBN 1783972475
EAN 9781783972470
Pages 258
Department Academic
Category History
Sub-Category General
Publisher Evangelical Press
Publication Date Apr 2019
Dimensions 216 x 138 x 13mm
Weight 0.33kg

Mostyn Roberts

Mostyn is the pastor of Welwyn Evangelical Church in Hertfordshire.

After reading law at Pembroke College, Cambridge (where he was

converted) he practised as a solicitor for seven years. He responded

to the call to the ministry, taking a BA at Spurgeon's College in London

followed by the MTh at the University of London. After a pastorate in

the north of England he came to Welwyn at the end of 1998. He has

taught Systematic Theology at LTS since 2002.