The religious roots of the First Amendment dissenting Protestants and the separation of church and state

Arguing that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation helped promote religious liberty and religious disestablishment in the early modern West, this text describes a continuous strand of this religious thought - as well as t...

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Main Author: Miller, Nicholas Patrick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2012, c2012
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Arguing that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation helped promote religious liberty and religious disestablishment in the early modern West, this text describes a continuous strand of this religious thought - as well as the thinkers who spread it
Physical Description:xviii, 242 p. ill
ISBN:9780199949724