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“Roger Williams: Religious Liberty” - 1 Timothy 2:1-6 | American Christianity: Shaping a Nation

“Roger Williams: Religious Liberty” - 1 Timothy 2:1-6 | American Christianity: Shaping a Nation

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Influenced by the horrors of the Thirty Years War, Roger Williams saw the disaster of religious orthodoxy enforced by political favor. He increasingly believed that the combination of church and state always resulted in coercion, persecution, and conflict; and that only institutional separation could prevent such evils in the future of the new world.

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