Struggle for Liberty
Subtitle: the Baptists, the Bible, and church-state conflict in colonial America
By: Robert Dalton ; foreword by David Cummins
Publisher: Calvary Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lansing, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781611190687
Copyright date: 2012
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The rise and development of church-state theory: the precedents of American colonial religious establishments; title: The garden and the wilderness: the views of Roger Williams on the limits of state authority in religion; title: The historiography of Isaac Backus and the limits of state authority in religious affairs; title: The church-state conflict in Virginia: Anglican establishment legislation and the Baptist literature of dissent; title: The Jeffersonian views of John Leland in church, state and society; title: The modern religious establishment: public education; title: Conclusion; title: Documents.; title: Balthasar Hubmaier concerning heretics and those who burn them, 1524; title: The Diet of Speyer, 1529; title: The trial of John Bunyan, 1660; title: Isaac Backus : An appeal to the public for religious liberty, 1773; title: Isaac Backus : A Bill of Rights, 1779; title: David Benedict : The Baptist struggle for religious liberty in the South, 1813; title: A prison epistle of John Waller, 1828; title: James Madison : A memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments, 1785; title: The Baptist Act for the Establishment of Religious Freedom of 1777; title: Thomas Jefferson : A bill for establishing religious freedom, 1786; title: Thomas Jefferson : The Danbury Baptist letter, 1802; title: John Leland's objection to the U.S. Constitution, 1788; title: Leland's role in the passage of the First Amendment, 1788