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orthodoxies had simply been replaced by another.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.
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ISBN
9781317884422
Publisert
2014
Utgave
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Vendor
Routledge
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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