LEADER 04521nam 2200637 450 001 9910824518503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-691-09270-2 010 $a1-4008-5071-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400850716 035 $a(CKB)2550000001163395 035 $a(EBL)1538262 035 $a(OCoLC)863671693 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001160306 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11767846 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001160306 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11117884 035 $a(PQKB)10491173 035 $a(OCoLC)864138737 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43203 035 $a(DE-B1597)453653 035 $a(OCoLC)979881894 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400850716 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1538262 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10805913 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL545531 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1538262 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001163395 100 $a20021101h20032003 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow the idea of religious toleration came to the West /$fPerez Zagorin 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2003] 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (390 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12142-7 311 $a1-306-14280-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [313]-365) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tCHAPTER 1. Religious Toleration: The Historical Problem -- $tCHAPTER 2. The Christian Theory of Religious Persecution -- $tCHAPTER 3. The Advent of Protestantism and the Toleration Problem -- $tCHAPTER 4. The First Champion of Religious Toleration: Sebastian Castellio -- $tCHAPTER 5. The Toleration Controversy in the Netherlands -- $tCHAPTER 6. The Great English Toleration Controversy, 1640-1660 -- $tCHAPTER 7. John Locke and Pierre Bayle -- $tCHAPTER 8. Conclusion: The Idea of Religious Toleration in the Enlightenment and After -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX 330 $aReligious 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 endorsing religious persecution, coercing unity, and, with the state's help, mercilessly crushing dissent and heresy. This position had its roots in certain intellectual and religious traditions, which Zagorin traces before showing how out of the same traditions came the beginnings of pluralism in the West. Here we see how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers--writing from religious, theological, and philosophical perspectives--contributed far more than did political expediency or the growth of religious skepticism to advance the cause of toleration. Reading these thinkers--from Erasmus and Sir Thomas More to John Milton and John Locke, among others--Zagorin brings to light a common, if unexpected, thread: concern for the spiritual welfare of religion itself weighed more in the defense of toleration than did any secular or pragmatic arguments. His book--which ranges from England through the Netherlands, the post-1685 Huguenot Diaspora, and the American Colonies--also exposes a close connection between toleration and religious freedom. A far-reaching and incisive discussion of the major writers, thinkers, and controversies responsible for the emergence of religious tolerance in Western society--from the Enlightenment through the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights--this original and richly nuanced work constitutes an essential chapter in the intellectual history of the modern world. 606 $aReligious tolerance$xChristianity$xHistory 615 0$aReligious tolerance$xChristianity$xHistory. 676 $a261.7/2/09 700 $aZagorin$b Perez$0317554 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824518503321 996 $aHow the idea of religious toleration came to the West$93988296 997 $aUNINA