How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the WestReligious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book by a leading historian of early modern Europe. |
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... The Toleration Controversy in the Netherlands CHAPTER 6 The Great English Toleration Controversy, 1640–1660 CHAPTER 7 John Locke and Pierre Bayle xi 14 93 145 188 240 CHAPTER 8 Conclusion: The Idea of Religious Toleration in the CONTENTS.
... English since the publication in 1935 of an English translation and edition of his book De haereticis, by the distinguished American historian of religious liberty Roland Bainton. The concluding chapter contains a concise overview of ...
... the past several hundred years in the aftermath and principally as the result of the English, American, and French revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I stress this point because some of THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM 3.
... English word “tolerance,” which is virtually identical in other Western languages (French tolérance, German Toleranz, Italian tolleranza, etc.), stems from the Latin verb tolerare, which is defined as “to bear or endure” and carries the ...
... English historian of early modern Europe, who emphasized the overwhelming importance of the political factor. Butterfield maintained that the emergence of toleration was entirely due to the mutual exhaustion resulting from the THE ...
Contents
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The Advent of Protestantism and the Toleration Problem | 46 |
The First Champion of Religious Toleration Sebastian Castellio | 93 |
The Toleration Controversy in the Netherlands | 145 |
The Great English Toleration Controversy 16401660 | 188 |
John Locke and Pierre Bayle | 240 |
Conclusion The Idea of Religious Toleration in the Enlightenment and After | 289 |
NOTES | 313 |
INDEX | 367 |