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Religious Liberty in Western Thought
Contributor(s): Reynolds, Noel B. (Editor), Durham, W. Cole (Editor)
ISBN: 0802848532     ISBN-13: 9780802848536
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $26.55  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1996
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion
Dewey: 322.442
Series: Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (Eerdmans)
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.1" W x 9.22" (1.02 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Academic