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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... thinkers, mostly unorthodox Protestants, of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all of whom were powerfully motivated by their religious beliefs to fight against the intolerance of both the Catholic and xii PREFACE.
... thinkers whose work concerned with toleration seems to me of particular importance, and which I have tried to set in its historical context. Although I have had to be very selective, I have done my best to include an adequate ...
... thinker and fighter in the history of the idea of toleration—is, I believe, the fullest modern account of Castellio in English since the publication in 1935 of an English translation and edition of his book De haereticis, by the ...
... history of the inhumanity of Christianity in its dealing with differences of religious belief, a history not yet ended even in his own time, that caused the famous eighteenth-century French thinker Voltaire to declare that 2 CHAPTER 1.
Perez Zagorin. caused the famous eighteenth-century French thinker Voltaire to declare that “of all religions the Christian is undoubtedly that which should instill the greatest toleration, although so far Christians have been the most ...
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 |