Decoding Roger Williams : the lost essay of Rhode Island's founding father / / Linford D. Fisher, J. Stanley Lemons, and Lucas Mason-Brown ; cover design by Charles Brock, Faceout Studio ; book design by Diane Smith
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Fisher Linford D.
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Decoding Roger Williams : the lost essay of Rhode Island's founding father / / Linford D. Fisher, J. Stanley Lemons, and Lucas Mason-Brown ; cover design by Charles Brock, Faceout Studio ; book design by Diane Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 234/.1612 |
| Soggetto topico: | Baptism - History of doctrines - 17th century |
| Persona (resp. second.): | LemonsJ. Stanley |
| Mason-BrownLucas | |
| BrockCharles | |
| SmithDiane | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Half title page,Title page, copyright""; ""Contents ""; ""Figures and Maps""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword""; ""Part 1. A Key into the Language of Roger Williams: Cracking and Interpreting the Roger Williams Code""; ""Part 2. “A Brief Reply to a Small Book Written by John Eliot� (ca. 1680)""; ""Part 3. Baptism Discovered Plainly and Faithfully, According to the Word of God (London 1675 [1672])""; ""Part 4. A Brief Answer to a Small Book Written by John Norcot Against Infant-Baptisme (1679)""; ""Suggestions for Further Reading and Research""; ""Index"" |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Near the end of his life, Roger Williams, Rhode Island founder and father of American religious freedom, scrawled an encrypted essay in the margins of a colonial-era book. For more than 300 years those shorthand notes remained indecipherable......until a team of Brown University undergraduates led by Lucas Mason-Brown cracked Williams' code after the marginalia languished for over a century in the archives of the John Carter Brown Library. At the time of Williams' writing, a trans-Atlantic debate on infant versus believer's baptism had taken shape that included London Baptist minister John Nor |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Decoding Roger Williams |
| ISBN: | 1-4813-0291-4 |
| 1-4813-0106-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812276103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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