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.
... Locke and Pierre Bayle. In these five chapters I have discussed a number of the most significant writings on toleration, in several different countries where the controversy raged, by thinkers such as Sebastian Franck, Sebastian ...
... Locke, also tended to conceive of religious toleration as related to religious freedom. Unless I indicate otherwise, therefore, I shall treat the concept of religious toleration as also implying religious freedom in some measure. In ...
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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 |