REL 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Half-Way Covenant, Type Conversion, George Whitefield
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Religious toleration is not the same thing as religious liberty, separation of church and state, no holy commonwealth thus no christian america, religious persecution) forced conversion, coerced conformity) produces hypocrisy. In book: roger williams (125-126) writes book called blovdy tenet. Mary dyer: quaker, preached (god spoke to her), and men said religion is for men to speak, arrested and hanged. Anne hutchinson: women who preached and men said no, banished and then went to. Rhode island than new york and was killed in massacre. Both of these women killed for their religious faith. Colony decides that children of these parents can be baptized (a compromise or half-way covenant )-let those kids get baptized. Focus on conscious religious experience faded, reveals the difficulty. A revival of puritan theology and the need for conscious religious experience seen in the first great awakening (first major revival in american history) of early 18th century.
