Lecture4 Flashcards
who was Roger Williams?
a Puritan who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1631 with Separatist sympathies.
why was Radical Puritanism founded?
for the purpose of freedom of conscience.
what year did Roger William graduate?
1627
where did Roger Williams graduate from?
Cambridge.
what year did Roger Williams get married, and what was her name?
1629, Mary Barnard.
what was the name of Roger Williams book, and when was it written?
A bloody tenant of persecution,1644
what was A Bloody Tenant Of Persecution written
1) Separation of church and state. 2) Democracy.
what years did Roger Williams minister in Salem?
1633-1635
Who was John Clarke
an American Anglican Separatist born in 1609.
what was a characteristic of John Williams?
that he had weapons, and he was asked to put them down.
what was Clark’ and Homes’ punishment for illegally conducting in religious practice.
they were forced to go to a Puritan church service.
what was Clark and Homes tried and convicted of?
Anabaptism.
who baptized Obadiah Homes?
John Clark, in 1651.
who was Elias Keach?
son of a prominent English Baptist pastor named Benjamin Keach.
what year did Keach come to the middle colonies?
1687.
how was Keach converted?
through conviction in his own preaching.
what and when did Keach establish that he is remembered for?
the Philadelphia Association, 1707.
what did the Philadelphia Association consist of?
ministerial training, Doctrinal development, fellowship of like-minded believers.
how was the Philadelphia Association supported?
by five churches.
who was William Screven?
a Baptist in England that fled to America to escape persecution.
what were the years of Screven’s life?
1629-1713
where did Screven establish his Baptist church?
in Kittery, Maine.
what did Screven do in 1696?
moves his Kittery congregation to Charleston S.C.
what were foundational to early American Baptists?
the role of the Bible.
what had a heavy impact on Early American Baptist in 1720’s-1740’s?
the first Great Awakening.
what was the first Baptist association established and when?
Elias Keach’s Philadelphia Association in 1707.
when was the Philadelphia Confession adopted?
1742.
when was the Rhode Island College founded?
1764.
what would the Rhode Island College later become?
Brown University.