44: Baptist Anarchists of Rhode Island

I interviewed Kenny about this topic. It’s a first for both of us. I don’t think either of us feel like this went as well as we hoped, but the history of a moment of time where some baptists became anarchists is pretty interesting.

For further reading:

Rhode Island’s Founder Abandons Liberty
Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts, 1636-1641

David D. Hall, The Antinomian Controversy 1636-1638 : A Documentary History, 1990

Winthrop, John, A Short Story… 

The Christian Examiner, Volume 16, Page 86

History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Volume 1, Page 263

Lives of Ezra Stiles, John Fitch, and Anne Hutchinson By James L. Kingsley, Charles Whittlesey, Page 167

Chandler, Peleg, American Criminal Trials, Page 1

The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political …, Volume 25, Page 13