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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... letter of reply, which thanked the congregation, also confirmed its sentiments, extolling the “Citizens of the United States” for “having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy . . . worthy of imitation” in which ...
... letter it is significant that Paul associated heresy with schismata, the Greek parent of the English word “schism,” which is defined in both languages as a separation, division, and disharmony. In his letter to the Galatians, he listed ...
... letter to Titus, after first exhorting him to tell his fellow Christians to avoid foolish questions and contentions, he then stated that they should reject “a man that is an heretick [hairetikon anthropon] after the first and second ...
... Paul was the greatest of Christian thinkers and one of the foremost religious minds of any age. Born in Roman Africa of a pagan father and a Christian mother, educated in Latin letters and philosophy CHRISTIAN THEORY OF PERSECUTION 25.
Perez Zagorin. and a Christian mother, educated in Latin letters and philosophy and a professor of rhetoric first in Africa and then in Italy, Augustine in his search for wisdom and truth had been during his youth an adherent of the ...
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 |