Explain the British and French religious policies from 1603 to 1715. Why do you think the ruler is afraid of religious tolerance? When discussing why rulers are concerned about religious tolerance and how their fears are affecting the implementation of religious policy, first of all the term "stubborn" is completely It is necessary to investigate the events that occurred over many years to understand. In the early days, British churches wanted to preserve religious ceremonies and church hierarchies and wanted to "conserve" conservative camps and all that was included in the old church. Extremists It was divided into the Calvinist faction camp. And the New Testament.
Roger Williams (1603-1683) was a religious opponent and founder of Rhode Island (1636). In New England's 50 years, Williams strongly supported religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. To reflect these principles, he and his colleague, Rhode Island State, established the colonial government dedicated to defending the "freedom of conscience" of individuals. Although he was best known at his own time as an author of extreme essays accusing his religious principle and accusing legitimacy of the New England Puritans, this "live experiment" is the most obvious of Williams It became a heritage. Concept, and attack the theological base of Quaker
Roger Williams was born in London in the era of intense religious intolerance. After finishing studying in the UK, he first went to the Massachusetts bay colony as a missionary. His dissatisfaction with religious freedom, and his complaints about the confiscation of land by American natives, made him angry as a church leader and was expelled from the colony. Together with his followers, he fled to Narragansett Bay, where he purchased land from Narragansetti Indians and founded a new colony to become Baptists, Quakers, Jews and other religious minorities. Group safe haven. About a century after Williams died, the concept of religious freedom of Williams, and the separation of church and state, influenced the author of the American Human Rights Body.
In 1603, the official religion of England was Protestantism, which was passed as a legislative bill at the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I since the 1559 religious solution. But this does not mean that everyone in the UK is Protestant, or that contemporaries believe Britain is still a Protestant country. As everyone knows, Elizabeth did not get married, and in the first half of her rule, they still hope that a devout Catholic will be handed over to Catholic rulers. Some people hope this will happen later than later, and Mary Stewart (Mary of Scotland, became more famous) became awkward of these people. Mary was a Catholic, and fled from her hometown of Scotland, mainly after reform of her country, carried out by nobility.