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How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West
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...
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Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.