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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... maintaining and disseminating beliefs—about the nature of Christ, the Trinity, the priesthood, the church, and other matters—that ecclesiastical authority condemned as false, and incurring the penalty of damnation. During the fourth ...
... maintaining religious faith and conformity among the masses of common people was an essential safeguard of social and ... maintained that the emergence of toleration was entirely due to the mutual exhaustion resulting from the THE ...
... much leniency, and he maintained that those who fashioned the persecutory machinery of the Inquisition were guilty of Tyndale, a great translator of the New Testament into English. CHAPTER 2: The Christian Theory of Religious Persecution.
... maintained themselves in power with the support of their armies. It was in this period, in which Roman civilization was declining and the empire in the West was destined to disappear and give way to successor Germanic barbarian kingdoms ...
... maintained in willful and persistent opposition to religious truth as authoritatively defined and declared by the church. From the orthodox viewpoint, heresy was a moral defect no less than a religious error, since the heretic adhered ...
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 |