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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Perez Zagorin. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY WIFE, Honoré Sharrer, WITH LOVE AND GRATITUDE FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS OF MARRIED HAPPINESS AND INTELLECTUAL COMPANIONSHIP. w. w God is always on the side of the persecuted. Dedication.
... intellectual controversies arising out of the religious divisions created in Europe by the Protestant Reformation. The modern concepts of religious toleration and freedom are thus Western in origin and the offspring of European ...
... intellectual and moral standing, like the church father Saint Augustine, to persecute and approve the persecution of other Christians for religious error. The next five chapters survey the controversy over religious toleration in Europe ...
... intellectual freedom. For the centuries in which intolerance reigned also witnessed the attempt by religious authorities and governments to censor and control the expression of philosophical, political, and other ideas in speech and ...
... intellectuals were forced for the first time to confront the issue of reconciling themselves to some degree of toleration and coexistence. To the question of why the willingness to tolerate and accept coexistence between rival religious ...
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 |