Cory D Higdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3071266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cory D Higdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cory D |
| FAMILY NAME | Higdon |
| SIGNATURE | HIGDON C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | BS in Political Science, the University of Memphis; Master of Divinity, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Conscience Rightly Informed
In the early modern debates over religious liberty and toleration, religious dissenters often raised the issue of an individual's conscience as a primary support for disestablishment. Dissenters like Roger Williams contended that establishmentarian policies persecuted tender consciences. God, according to dissenters, had not granted authority over the conscience to civil rulers; thus, religious establishment was both theologically specious as wel…
A sweete cup hath rendered many of us wanton and too active”
The intellectual history of religious liberty redounds with complexity. This article chronicles the early decades of the Providence Plantations, what eventually became Rhode Island, as a historical frame of reference for exploring the promises and perils that liberty of conscience wrought in the Narragansett Bay
Roger Williams, Natural Law, and Religious Liberty
The seventeenth-century colonial Puritan Roger Williams remains a celebrated advocate for religious liberty. The copious number of texts devoted to Williams testifies to his longstanding legacy throughout history and to the idea of religious freedom.1 Roger Williams’s doctrine for religious liberty did not arise from the auspices of a religious zealot’s imagination. Instead, he discovered this pre-political liberty as founded in a biblical–theolo…
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Roger Williams, Natural Law, and Religious Liberty
The seventeenth-century colonial Puritan Roger Williams remains a celebrated advocate for religious liberty. The copious number of texts devoted to Williams testifies to his longstanding legacy throughout history and to the idea of religious freedom.1 Roger Williams’s doctrine for religious liberty did not arise from the auspices of a religious zealot’s imagination. Instead, he discovered this pre-political liberty as founded in a biblical–theolo…
A sweete cup hath rendered many of us wanton and too active”
The intellectual history of religious liberty redounds with complexity. This article chronicles the early decades of the Providence Plantations, what eventually became Rhode Island, as a historical frame of reference for exploring the promises and perils that liberty of conscience wrought in the Narragansett Bay
A Conscience Rightly Informed
In the early modern debates over religious liberty and toleration, religious dissenters often raised the issue of an individual's conscience as a primary support for disestablishment. Dissenters like Roger Williams contended that establishmentarian policies persecuted tender consciences. God, according to dissenters, had not granted authority over the conscience to civil rulers; thus, religious establishment was both theologically specious as wel…
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