Persecution & Toleration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persecution & Toleration write by Noel D. Johnson. This book was released on 2019-02-14. Persecution & Toleration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama tackle the question: how does religious liberty develop?
Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689
Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 write by John Coffey. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history. The seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of expanding and extended liberalism, when superstition and received truth were overthrown. The book questions how far England moved towards becoming a liberal society at that time and whether or not the end of the century crowned a period of progress, or if one set of intolerant orthodoxies had simply been replaced by another. The book examines what toleration means now and meant then, explaining why some early modern thinkers supported persecution and how a growing number came to advocate toleration. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, the book then studies the practice of toleration at the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts, the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration. The seventeenth century emerges as a turning point after which, for the first time, a good Christian society also had to be a tolerant one. Persecution and Toleration is a critical addition to the study of early modern Britain and to religious and political history.
Beyond the Persecuting Society
Beyond the Persecuting Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Persecuting Society write by John Christian Laursen. This book was released on 2011-07-18. Beyond the Persecuting Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is a myth—easily shattered—that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another—too readily accepted—that before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In Beyond the Persecuting Society John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second generalization. If intolerance and religious persecution have been at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have realized: Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous Letter Concerning Toleration. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn, from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century Talmudic scholar, Menahem ben Solomon Ha-MeIiri, to the rejection of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Beyond the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present.
Persecution or Toleration
Persecution or Toleration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persecution or Toleration write by Adam Wolfson. This book was released on 2010-09-20. Persecution or Toleration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces, in detail, the complex contours of the Locke-Proast debate over the question of toleration-revealing the radical case John Locke made on behalf of toleration. Arguing against the pro-persecution arguments of Jonas Proast, Locke developed a broadly humanistic case for toleration rooted in liberal notions of consent, human dependency, and skepticism. Locke's theory would extend to a wide range of religious believers and even atheists. However, at the same time, according to Locke, toleration requires an overcoming of the religious worldview, rather than an emergence out of theological assumptions, as many scholars argue. Ultimately, the success of toleration involves more than institutional reforms such as the separation of church and state or a mere modus vivendi among fighting faiths; it entails a shift in core religious beliefs and identities and a fundamental change in religious believers themselves. By undertaking a careful reading of the quarrel between Locke and Proast, this book furthers our understanding of the political alternatives of persecution, toleration, and pluralism.
Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689
Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 write by John Coffey. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history. The seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of expanding and extended liberalism, when superstition and received truth were overthrown. The book questions how far England moved towards becoming a liberal society at that time and whether or not the end of the century crowned a period of progress, or if one set of intolerant orthodoxies had simply been replaced by another. The book examines what toleration means now and meant then, explaining why some early modern thinkers supported persecution and how a growing number came to advocate toleration. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, the book then studies the practice of toleration at the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts, the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration. The seventeenth century emerges as a turning point after which, for the first time, a good Christian society also had to be a tolerant one. Persecution and Toleration is a critical addition to the study of early modern Britain and to religious and political history.
