LEADER 03049nam 22004455 450 001 9910819613603321 005 20200229105050.0 010 $a0-300-24549-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300245493 035 $a(CKB)4100000007877723 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5742777 035 $a(DE-B1597)527552 035 $a(OCoLC)1091029313 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300245493 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007877723 100 $a20200229h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLiberty in the Things of God $eThe Christian Origins of Religious Freedom /$fRobert Louis Wilken 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (247 pages) 311 $a0-300-22663-2 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Endowed with Freedom -- $t2. A Christian Society -- $t3. The Two Swords: Reformation in Germany -- $t4. Custodians of Both Tables: Switzerland -- $t5. Two Religions in One City: France -- $t6. Freedom of Worship: The Netherlands -- $t7. Sturdy Piety: Catholics in England -- $t8. Seeking Faith's Pure Shrine: English Separatists -- $t9. Liberty Necessary unto Human Nature -- $tConclusion -- $tEpilogue -- $tAppendix: Thomas Jefferson and Tertullian -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tIndex of Biblical Citations 330 $aFrom one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke   In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build.   Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how "the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day." 606 $aLiberty$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aFreedom of religion 615 0$aLiberty$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aFreedom of religion. 676 $a233.7 700 $aWilken$b Robert Louis, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0153684 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819613603321 996 $aLiberty in the Things of God$93960246 997 $aUNINA