The phrase "[A] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world" was first used by Baptist theologian Roger Williams, the founder of the colony of Rhode Island, in his 1644 book The Bloody Tenent of Persecution. The phrase was later used by Thomas Jefferson as a description of the First Amendment and its restriction on the legislative branch of the federal government, in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists (a religious minority concerned about the dominant position of the Congregationalist church in Connecticut): COUNT 5
QSN1 Who was Roger Williams? ANS1 Baptist theologian QSN2 What phrase did Roger Williams first use? ANS2 "[A] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world" QSN3 What colony was Roger Williams the founder of? ANS3 Rhode Island QSN4 When was the book The Bloody Tenent of Persecution published? ANS4 1644 QSN5 Who used William's phrase as a description of the First Amendment and its restriction on the legislative branch? ANS5 Thomas Jefferson