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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... discussion and defense of toleration. The book begins with a chapter on the historical problem of explaining the emergence of religious toleration in the West and which also examines the meaning of the concept of tolerance and its ...
... discussion of the view of religious freedom in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and ... discussions of toleration by moral and political philosophers. Most of the former are quite specialized rather than ...
... discussion, I have been speaking of religious toleration and religious freedom as though they are closely related or synonymous. Before going further, however, I feel it essential to offer a few clarifications concerning the use of ...
... discussion strangely ignored is the very great contribution made to the achievement of toleration and denominational coexistence by the formation of religious, philosophical, moral, and humanitarian arguments that can support and ...
... discuss the notable writers and the religious and intellectual controversies concerning toleration that are the subject of the following chapters. CHAPTER 2 The Christian Theory of Religious Persecution w I THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM 13.
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 |