“All Pretend an Holy War”: Radical Beliefs and the Rejection of Persecution in the Mind of Roger Williams

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Matthew Rowley

Matthew Patrick Rowley is a Ph.D. Candidate in early modern religious and political history at the University of Leicester and a graduate research associate at the Cambridge Institute on Religion & International Studies (Clare College, Cambridge). His thesis is titled “Godly Killing: Military Providentialism in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1680.” This study traces Puritan interpretations of providence in military victory over enemies in England, Ireland, Scotland, and colonial America. He holds an MDiv and ThM from Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis where he wrote his thesis on the imitation of biblical violence.