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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... natural rights,” including “liberty of conscience.” This noteworthy exchange between the Hebrew Congregation of Newport and the first president of the United States is even more memorable because Washington directed his remarks to ...
... natural religion, all precursors of the Enlightenment in Europe, which had the effect of modifying and liberalizing religious beliefs, weakening clerical authority, and undermining theological orthodoxy.16 It should be borne in mind ...
... 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 Heresies ...
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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 |