Noble American Lives: Biographies of America's Religious Thinkers and Believers

Noble American Lives: Biographies of America's Religious Thinkers and Believers

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Noble American Lives: Biographies of America's Religious Thinkers and Believers episodes

  • Roger Williams, Episode 12: King Philip's war & Final Days of Roger Williams

    Join us for Episode 12, where we conclude the story of Roger Williams. This episode contains chapters 29 and 30. (03:11) Chapter 29: King Philip's War (53:17) Chapter 30: The final days of Roger Williams Roger Williams, who fled England and joined the Puritans and pilgrims at Boston, at Massachusetts Bay Colony, and then he founded his own colony, Rhode Island. Roger was a profound thinker who latched upon ideas that transported him to a point unique in America's history. Often when reading his life one wonders. How did he think that?

    He was trained as an Anglican C conclusion at Pembroke College at Cambridge University in England. Fell in with the Puritans at his first job, sailed to Massachusetts Bay Colony with his wife Mary in 1630, and there he claimed he was now a separatist. Yet his thinking moved him to a point well beyond separatist thoughts every day.

    He lived life as a pioneer on the American frontier. But he thought and wrote as a theologian, a political scientist and intellectual. In episode one of Roger Williams, I will read from my book The Noble Lives of the American Religious Thinkers and Believers, Roger Williams versus Cotton Mather. I will read parts of chapter One, early days and parts of Chapter Two, religious controversy in England.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Roger Williams, Episode 11: Roger Debates the Quakers

    Join us for Episode 11, where we carry on the story of Roger Williams. This episode contains Chapter 28. (02:45) Roger Debates the Quakers Roger Williams, who fled England and joined the Puritans and pilgrims at Boston, at Massachusetts Bay Colony, and then he founded his own colony, Rhode Island. Roger was a profound thinker who latched upon ideas that transported him to a point unique in America's history. Often when reading his life one wonders. How did he think that?

    He was trained as an Anglican C conclusion at Pembroke College at Cambridge University in England. Fell in with the Puritans at his first job, sailed to Massachusetts Bay Colony with his wife Mary in 1630, and there he claimed he was now a separatist. Yet his thinking moved him to a point well beyond separatist thoughts every day.

    He lived life as a pioneer on the American frontier. But he thought and wrote as a theologian, a political scientist and intellectual. In episode one of Roger Williams, I will read from my book The Noble Lives of the American Religious Thinkers and Believers, Roger Williams versus Cotton Mather. I will read parts of chapter One, early days and parts of Chapter Two, religious controversy in England.

    43 min
  • Roger Williams, Episode 10: Rhode Island Presidency, the Arrival of the Jews and Quakers

    Join us for Episode 10, where we carry on the story of Roger Williams. This episode contains Chapters 25 to 27 (02:55) Chapter 25: President of Rhose Island (25:31) Chapter 26: The Jews and the Quakers Arrive At Rhode Island (41:41) Chapter 27: A new charter Roger Williams, who fled England and joined the Puritans and pilgrims at Boston, at Massachusetts Bay Colony, and then he founded his own colony, Rhode Island. Roger was a profound thinker who latched upon ideas that transported him to a point unique in America's history. Often when reading his life one wonders. How did he think that?

    He was trained as an Anglican C conclusion at Pembroke College at Cambridge University in England. Fell in with the Puritans at his first job, sailed to Massachusetts Bay Colony with his wife Mary in 1630, and there he claimed he was now a separatist. Yet his thinking moved him to a point well beyond separatist thoughts every day.

    He lived life as a pioneer on the American frontier. But he thought and wrote as a theologian, a political scientist and intellectual. In episode one of Roger Williams, I will read from my book The Noble Lives of the American Religious Thinkers and Believers, Roger Williams versus Cotton Mather. I will read parts of chapter One, early days and parts of Chapter Two, religious controversy in England.

    56 min

About Noble American Lives: Biographies of America's Religious Thinkers and Believers

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This show is about the lives of certain individuals from America's past, who participated in America's religious journey over the past five centuries. Some thought more deeply than did others. Some believed in new ways. Some believed in old ways, but promoted an existing religion in a new way.