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Book Review

The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution, and the Bible. By James P. Byrd Jr. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2002. xii, 286 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-86554-771-8.)
Historians have had a long love affair with Roger Williams. Such luminaries as Vernon Parrington, Perry Miller, Edmund Morgan, and Edwin Gaustad have all written extensively on Roger Williams and his contributions to a wide range of American intellectual and cultural currents, including the separation of church and state, American individualism, and civil liberties. Within this richly dense Williams historiography, James P. Byrd Jr.'s new book is a welcome addition, for it offers a groundbreaking examination of the "important biblical dimensions in the thought" and practice of this "pivotal radical" (p. 19). . . .
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