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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... of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to another for his religious belief. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty CONTENTS w PREFACE CHAPTER 1 Religious Toleration: The Historical Problem.
... history contain numerous examples of episodes and entrenched institutional policies reflecting animosity and systematic discrimination, bigotry, and exclusion directed against Catholics, Jews, and other religious minorities. In spite of ...
... history, an accusation of heresy could mean death for the person charged. At its heart, the controversy over religious toleration and liberty of conscience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a combat against the cruelty of ...
... historical account of the ideas of tolerance and religious freedom in their appearance and formative period in the early modern era between the sixteenth and the first decades of the eighteenth century. Within these years I have ...
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 |