The long truce : how toleration made the world safe for power and profit / A.J. Conyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conyers, A. J., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toleration--History.

Toleration.

Religious tolerance--Christianity--History.

Religious tolerance.

Power (Social sciences)--History.

Power (Social sciences).

History.

Secularization--History.

Secularization.

Religious tolerance--Christianity.

Physical Description:

xiv, 266 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dallas : Spence Pub. Co., 2001.

Summary:

For four hundred years, toleration has been considered the solution to sectarian violence. But by banishing questions of ultimate meaning from public life, toleration has, ironically, undermined the very peace it was meant to establish. Conyers attacks the superstition that our only choice is between destructive political conflict and the suppression of all transcendent concerns. A more authentic model of toleration is to be found in pre-Reformation Christianity, which preached humility rather than indifference.-- Can we criticize toleration without supporting intolerance?-- Why is it literally impossible to separate politics and religion?-- Is traditional Christianity an obstacle to toleration -- or its savior?

Contents:

1 The Cunning of History 3

2 The Ecumenical Impulse 21

3 A Feeling of Uncertainty 45

4 Thomas Hobbes and the Fears of Modernity 66

5 Pierre Bayle and the Modern Sanctity of the Individual 88

6 John Locke and the Politics of Toleration 121

7 The Triumph of Toleration 147

8 The Shadow Leviathan 169

9 Nihilism and the Catholic Vision 196

10 High Tolerance 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.

ISBN:

1890626368

OCLC:

45755938