How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West [electronic resource].

By:

Zagorin, Perez

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)ISBN:

9781400850716
9780691121420

Uniform titles:

EBL e-books.

Subject(s):

Religious tolerance -- Christianity -- History

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

261.7/2/09 261.7209

Online resources:

Full-text via EBook Library

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1: Religious Toleration: The Historical Problem; CHAPTER 2: The Christian Theory of Religious Persecution; CHAPTER 3: The Advent of Protestantism and the Toleration Problem; CHAPTER 4: The First Champion of Religious Toleration: Sebastian Castellio; CHAPTER 5: The Toleration Controversy in the Netherlands; CHAPTER 6: The Great English Toleration Controversy, 1640-1660; CHAPTER 7: John Locke and Pierre Bayle; CHAPTER 8: Conclusion: The Idea of Religious Toleration in the Enlightenment and After; NOTES; INDEX.

Summary: Religious 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. Perez Zagorin takes readers to a time when both the Catholic Church and the main new Protestant denominations embraced a policy of e.

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Religious 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. Perez Zagorin takes readers to a time when both the Catholic Church and the main new Protestant denominations embraced a policy of e.

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