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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... Protestant Reformation. The modern concepts of religious toleration and freedom are thus Western in origin and the ... Protestants, of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all of whom were powerfully motivated by their religious ...
... Protestant reformers Luther and Calvin, in the sixteenth century, until that of the two foremost champions of toleration at the end of the seventeenth century, John Locke and Pierre Bayle. In these five chapters I have discussed a ...
... Protestantism, was probably the most intolerant period in Christian history, marked not only by violent conflict ... Protestant governments in Europe to stop the spread of heresy, and in the civil and external wars of religion waged ...
... Protestant denominations. To the medieval church and papacy, coexistence with heretics was unthinkable, and its possibility was never considered. Thus it was only with the appearance and steady expansion of Protestantism in the ...
... Protestantism in France, and by the Protestants that they had no hope of making France into a Protestant country. It granted legal toleration to the Protestant minority, who were allowed to have their own churches and freedom of worship ...
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 |