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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... religious toleration came to the West / Peter Zagorin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-691-09270-2 (alk. paper) 1. Religious tolerance—Christianity—History. I. Title. BR1610 .Z34 2003 261.7′2′09—dc21 ...
... of conscience 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.
... religious community that had been oppressed and persecuted by the Christian world for many centuries. His words may be taken as an eloquent testimony to the central importance religious toleration and the free exercise of religion have ...
... religious minorities. In spite of this, however, it is also true that most of the American people have never ceased to regard freedom of religion as one of their basic and most precious rights. Today, following our recent entrance into ...
... Christian churches, sects, and confessions, that there has appeared a massive body of writings by many different authors exploring the problem of religious toleration from many angles and presenting an array of arguments in behalf of ...
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 |