Join us for Episode 8, where we carry on the story of Roger Williams. This episode contains Chapters 18 to 20. 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. (02:49) Chapter 18: The fourth paper presented by Major Butler (10:21) Chapter 19: The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's (35:13) Chapter 20: The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody