Religious Liberty in Western Thought (Google eBook)

Noel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Jun 1, 1996 - Religion - 316 pages

In this volume, ten leading scholars harvest the best of Western thinking on religious liberty. An opening chapter shows how religious liberty emerged slowly in the West through centuries of cruel experience and growing enlightenment. Separate chapters thereafter take up the unique roles of such titans as Marsilius, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Tocqueville, and the American framers in the Western drama of religious liberty. From widely divergent experiences, these titans discovered the cardinal principles of religious liberty--religious pluralism and toleration, religious equality and non-discrimination, liberty of conscience and association, freedom of expression and exercise. From widely discordant convictions, they distilled the most enduring models of church and state and of religion and law in the West--from the organic models of earlier centuries to the dualistic models of more recent times.

Contents

• RELIGIOUS RIGHTS A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: 29
• POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN MARSILIUS OF PADUA: 59
• MARTIN LUTHER ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: 75
• MODERATE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE THEOLOGY OF JOHN CALVIN: 83
• THOMAS HOBBES ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND SOVEREIGNTY: 123
• JOHN LOCKE A THEOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: 143
• ROUSSEAUS CIVIL RELIGION AND THE IDEAL OF WHOLENESS: 161
• EDMUND BURKES TOLERANT ESTABLISHMENT: 203
• RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND RELIGION IN THE AMERICAN FOUNDING REVISITED: 245
• THE ACCOMMODATION OF RELIGION A TOCQUEVILLIAN PERSPECTIVE: 291

About the author

Reynolds is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Religious Liberty in Western Thought; Issue 4 of Emory University Studies in Law and Religion, No. 4
• Editors: Noel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1996
• ISBN: 0802848532, 9780802848536
• Length: 316 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / General