TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zagorin,Perez
TI  - How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West
SN  - 9781400850716
U1  - 261.7/2/09261.7209 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Religious tolerance -- Christianity -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 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
N2  - 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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