<論文>ロージャー・ウィリアムズとクェーカー教徒との対立

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• This paper attempts to discuss several historical and theological points concerning the debate which took place in August 1672 between Roger Williams, Founder of the English Colony of Rhode Island and a champion of church/state separation, and the three stalwart Quakers deputing the leader of their sect, George Fox. Rhode Island had established the principle of religious toleration two decades earlier and accepted the Quakers in its jurisdiction, who were barred from the neighboring colonies. It was becoming a stronghold of Quakerism in New England. When George Fox visited Rhode Island to spread their faith there in the middle of 1672,he was challenged by Roger Williams to a debate but had left Newport shortly before the letter of challenge was carried there. Fox's untimely departure was condemned by Williams as a sneaky intrigue to evade the proposed debate. The frustrated Williams had a heated four-day debate with Fox's three disciples, John Stubbs, William Edmundson, and John Burnyeat (replaced by John Cartwright on the last day). An almost verbatim record of the debate was published by Roger Williams in a lengthy book sarcastically entitled George Fox Digg'd out of his Burrowes (Boston, 1676). In response to this criticism, Fox co-authored with John Burnyeat and published a book with a similarly sarcastic title A New-England Fire-Brand Quenched (London, 1678). The debate on the fourteen points proposed by Roger Williams, as recorded in the books, seems to reveal some characteristics of his religious ideas and also of his frame of mind in his late years. He pursued tenaciously his verbal attack on what he considered was wrong with Quakerism, while there was no persecution of the Quakers for religious reasons in Rhode Island ; where, by the laws and regulations enacted on the basis of Roger Williams's thought, the religious and secular affairs were distinctly kept separate.

• 東京工芸大学の論文
• 1996-03-31

著者

• 久保田 泰夫

  基礎教育課程

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