Download or read book Isaac Backus and Religious Liberty in Massachusetts 1755 1780 written by Sung Bok Kim and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isaac Backus Colonial Apologist for Religious Liberty written by Clair Eugene Tromsness and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to a Gentleman in the Massachusetts General Assembly Concerning Taxes to Support Religious Worship One Line From Elihu written by Isaac Backus and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W013489 Signed on p. 22: A countryman. March 14. 1771. Attributed to Isaac Backus by Evans. [Boston: s.n.], Printed in the year 1771. 22, [2]p.; 4°
Download or read book The Struggle Over the Adoption of the Constitution of Massachusetts 1780 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty Against the Oppressions of the Present Day 1773 written by Isaac Backus and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Isaac Backus Pioneer of Religious Liberty written by Thomas Buford Maston and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty of Conscience and the Growth of Religious Diversity in Early America 1636 1786 written by Carla Gardina Pestana and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Open Door of Liberty written by Nick McNaughton and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Door of Liberty is about how religious freedom came to be an important part of the basic law of the United States. There has been much discussion and some controversy over the years as to what a religiously free society requires of its citizens and its government, but there is widespread agreement that Americans should have an absolute right to maintain their own religious (or unreligious) opinions, exceptionally broad rights to their religious practices (or the right not to practice) and that government should not establish any set of beliefs as an "official" religion. It was not always so. At the dawn of the colonial era in the early 1600s the newly-formed colonies followed the then-common practice of Europe and particularly England by demanding adherence to the beliefs and practices of a state-sponsored church. Massachusetts, established by Puritan dissenters from the official Anglican church, enforced its own interpretation of Christian theology, exiling anyone from their society who would not conform. Virginia, a bastion of orthodox Anglicanism, admitted no one who would not acknowledge the king as the head of the only true church. An Open Door of Liberty describes how generations of religious dissidents changed the culture and eventually the law. The story includes the founding of religiously free Rhode Island by Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson and other Massachusetts exiles, the efforts of English Catholics led by the Calverts to create a tolerant haven in Maryland, the role of the Quakers throughout the colonies in challenging oppressive laws at considerable physical peril as well as the establishment of Pennsylvania by Quaker William Penn as one of the most tolerant societies of its day and the role of the early Baptists from John Clarke to later figures such as Isaac Backus and their advocacy of "soul liberty." Through their efforts and those of others, most Americans came to agree with Thomas Jefferson that "Almighty God hath created the mind free" and supported the religion clauses of the First Amendment as well as similar laws in the first constitutions of the newly independent states. Also discussed in this book are some of the ramifications of attempting to create a religiously free society. For example, what is meant by "separation of church and state" and why does use of this phrase sometimes result in arguments? How did breaking apart the church-state power structure help make democracy possible? If religious freedom is part of our basic law why have some religious groups been subject to hostility and violations of their rights? These topics and other aspects of religious freedom have been the subject of their own detailed works, but the overview contained in An Open Door of Liberty helps give some context to the subject.
Download or read book Isaac Backus and the American Pietistic Tradition written by William Gerald McLoughlin and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1967 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William McLoughlin's vivid biography of Isaac Backus throws light on the developments which imparted a religious dimension to the struggle for American nationality. Already in the seventeenth century, the colonists had worried about the obligations imposed by conscience and the relationship of the individual to society. That anxiety grew deeper in the eighteenth century. Isaac Backus grew up in an environment which repeatedly thrust those problems upon men's attention. He lived at a time when religious issues raised the question of where the true source of spiritual authority. Backus and his Baptist following wrestled with both sets of issues; and the course they took as the Revolution unfolded would have a permanent effect upon American character and institutions." -- Oscar Handlin (excerpt from Editor's Preface)
Download or read book Isaac Backus written by Dewey H. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book As to Roger Williams and His Banishment from the Massachusetts Plantation written by Henry Martyn Dexter and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Beyond Toleration The Religious Origins of American Pluralism written by Chris Beneke Assistant Professor of History Bentley College and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its founding, the United States was one of the most religiously diverse places in the world. Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, Dutch Reformed, German Reformed, Lutherans, Huguenots, Dunkers, Jews, Moravians, and Mennonites populated the nations towns and villages. Dozens of new denominations would emerge over the succeeding years. What allowed people of so many different faiths to forge a nation together? In this richly told story of ideas, Chris Beneke demonstrates how the United States managed to overcome the religious violence and bigotry that characterized much of early modern Europe and America. The key, Beneke argues, did not lie solely in the protection of religious freedom. Instead, he reveals how American culture was transformed to accommodate the religious differences within it. The expansion of individual rights, the mixing of believers and churches in the same institutions, and the introduction of more civility into public life all played an instrumental role in creating the religious pluralism for which the United States has become renowned. These changes also established important precedents for future civil rights movements in which dignity, as much as equality, would be at stake. Beyond Toleration is the first book to offer a systematic explanation of how early Americans learned to live with differences in matters of the highest importance to them --and how they found a way to articulate these differences civilly. Today when religious conflicts once again pose a grave danger to democratic experiments across the globe, Beneke's book serves as a timely reminder of how one country moved past toleration and towards religious pluralism.
Download or read book Baptists in America written by Bill J. Leonard and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptist churches and their members have encompassed a range of theological interpretations and a variety of social and political viewpoints. At first glance, Baptist theology seems classically Protestant in its emphasis on the Trinity, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the authority of Scripture, salvation by faith alone, and baptism by immersion. Yet the interpretation and implementation of these beliefs have made Baptists one of the most fragmented denominations in the United States, often characterized as a people who "multiply by dividing." In Baptists in America, Bill J. Leonard traces the history of Baptists, beginning with their origins in seventeenth-century Holland and England. He examines the development of Baptist beliefs and practices, offering an overview of the various denominations and fellowships within Baptism, and considers the disputes surrounding the question of biblical authority, the ordinances (baptism and the Lord's Supper), congregational forms of church governance, and religious liberty. Leonard also examines the role of Baptists in the Fundamentalist and Social Gospel movements of the early twentieth century, the Civil Rights movement, and the growth of the Religious Right. Leonard explores the social and religious issues currently dividing Baptists, including race, the ordination of women, the separation of church and state, and sexuality. He concludes with a discussion of the future of Baptist identity in America.
Download or read book In Debt to Shays written by Robert A. Gross and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebellion by challenging existing understandings of late eighteenth-century America and restoring the rebellion to its historical context
Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of New England written by Isaac Backus and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
