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English
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'The Restauration of Zion': Roger Williams and the Quest for the Primitive Church
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Iowa City, Iowa
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University of Iowa
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Ph.D.
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"In conclusion, a brief reflection on the gains and implications of this study is in order. First, and most important, it has attempted to continue the effort begun by Perry Miller and extended by Clark Gilpin and others to understand the career and thought of Roger Williams primarily in theological terms. The basic argument has been that Williams' central theological concerns can be focused most clearly in the framework of Christian Primitivism. Second, this study can contribute to a greater appreciation for Puritanism in general as a primitivist movement. Perhaps it will provide some stimulus for reassessing the relationship between Puritan biblicism, especially ecclesiological concerns, and Puritan eschatology, and third, this study can provide an additional resource or the comparative study of restitutionist movements and theologians. Thus the primitivism of Williams and the Puritans could be compared profitably to that of the Anabaptists in Europe, the Mormons, Primitive Baptists, 'Christians,' and Disciples of Christ in America, and to many individual theologians. Such studies could shed light on how Christian renewal movements are shaped by different cultural, theological, and personal forces." [Author]