Religious liberty in Western thought / edited by Noel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reynolds, Noel B.

Durham, W. Cole, Jr., 1948-

Series:

Emory University studies in law and religion ; no. 4.

Emory University studies in law and religion ; no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of religion--History.

Freedom of religion.

History.

Physical Description:

312 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, [1996]

Summary:

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:

Chapter 1 Religious Rights: A Historical Perspective / Brian Tierney 29

Chapter 2 Political and Religious Freedom in Marsilius of Padua / Brian Tierney 59

Chapter 3 Martin Luther on Religious Liberty / Steven Ozment 75

Chapter 4 Moderate Religious Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin / John Witte, Jr. 83

Chapter 5 Thomas Hobbes: On Religious Liberty and Sovereignty / Joshua Mitchell 123

Chapter 6 John Locke: A Theology of Religious Liberty / Joshua Mitchell 143

Chapter 7 Rousseau's Civil Religion and the Ideal of Wholeness / W. Cole Durham, Jr. 161

Chapter 8 Edmund Burke's Tolerant Establishment / Michael W. McConnell 203

Chapter 9 Religious Liberty and Religion in the American Founding Revisited / Ellis Sandoz 245

Chapter 10 The Accommodation of Religion: A Tocquevillian Perspective / Thomas L. Pangle 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0788503197

0788503200

OCLC:

35599779