Roger Williams The Church and the State

Name: Roger Williams The Church and the State
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ISBN: 9780393304039

ISBN-10: 0393304035

ISBN-13: 9780393304039

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Edmund S. Morgan, Edmund S. Morgan

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An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliestand most passionateadvocate 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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia and Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America.