Religious tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment : atheist's progress / Eric MacPhail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacPhail, Eric, author.

Series:

Routledge research in early modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atheism--History.

Atheism.

History.

Religious tolerance--History.

Religious tolerance.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

153 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The main authors featured are Desiderius Erasmus, Sebastian Castellio, Jean Bodin, Michel de Montaigne, Dirck Coornhert, Justus Lipsius, Gisbertus Voetius, the anonymous Theophrastus redivivus, and Pierre Bayle. These authors reflect and inform changing attitudes to religious tolerance inspired by a complete reconceptualization of atheism over the course of three centuries of literary and intellectual history. By integrating the history of tolerance in the history of atheism, Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment: Atheist's Progress should prove stimulating to historians of philosophy as well as literary specialists and students of Reformation history"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: MacPhail, Eric, Religious tolerance from renaissance to enlightenment

ISBN:

9780367444228

0367444224

OCLC:

1127065282

Publisher Number:

99983452660