Beyond the Persecuting Society

, by Laursen, John Christian; Nederman, Cary J.

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ISBN: 9780812233315 | 081223331X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/1997

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Beyond the Persecuting Society constructs a history of toleration from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century.

Acknowledgments

vii

General Introduction: Political and Historical Myths in the Toleration Literature

(12)

John Christian

Cary J. Nederman

Part I. The Medieval Balance

(82)

Introduction: Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance in Medieval Europe

(12)

Cary J. Nederman

1. Peter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue

(28)

Constant J. Mews

2. Toleration, Skepticism, and the "Clash of Ideas": Principles of Liberty in the Writings of John of Salisbury

(18)

Cary J. Nederman

3. Ha-Me'iri's Theory of Religious Toleration

(24)

Gary Remer

Part II. The Long Sixteenth Century

(74)

Introduction: The Transformations of the Long Sixteenth Century

(12)

Randolph C. Head

4. "Heretics be not in all things heretics": Cardinal Pole, His Circle, and the Potential for Toleration

107

(18)

Thomas F. Mayer

5. The Concept of Toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin

125

(20)

Marion Leathers Kuntz

6. Religious Coexistence and Confessional Conflict in the Vier Dorfer: Practices of Toleration in Eastern Switzerland, 1525-1615

145

(24)

Randolph C. Head

Part III. The Seventeenth Century

169

(110)

Introduction: Contexts and Paths to Toleration in the Seventeenth Century

169

(9)

John Christian Laursen

7. Samuel von Pufendorf and Toleration

178

(19)

Detlef Doring

8. Baylean Liberalism: Tolerance Requires Nontolerance

197

(19)

John Christian Laursen

9. "Religion Set the World at Odds": Deism and the Climate of Religious Tolerance in the Works of Aphra Behn

216

(16)

Arlen Feldwick

Cary J. Nederman

10. Skepticism About Religion and Millenarian Dogmatism: Two Sources of Toleration in the Seventeenth Century

232

(19)

Richard H. Popkin

11. The Problem of Toleration in the New Israel: Religious Communalism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts

251

(28)

H. Frank Way

Index

279

(8)

Contributors

287

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