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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... 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.
... Human Rights of 1948 and the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church's Declaration on Religious Liberty of 1965. Although I touch in the following pages on the subjects of both anti-Semitism and attitudes toward Jews and of irenic ...
... human freedom.”9 Johannes Kuhn, a German scholar of the subject, speaks of the historical sense of toleration as encompassing both forbearance toward another and treating another with respect.10 In the latter formulation, we can ...
... human beings are greatly affected by reasons and justifications. In the absence of convincing reasons showing why toleration is right and desirable, the institutional accommodation and the change in individual and social values needed ...
... human and natural law” ordain that “each person may worship whatever he wishes.”20 Other authors who carried on the theological warfare against heresy were Hippolytus of Rome (d. ca. 235), a Christian martyr whose Refutation of All ...
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 |