Religious Liberty in Western ThoughtNoel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003 - 312 páginas This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. In this volume, several 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 role 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. Contributors: |
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... argument for religious liberty . Rather , he finds " the best antidote for all the false fundamentalisms of our age " in the general creed of respect and compassion , advanced by the original founders of the western religious tradition ...
... argument on its head by giving the superior position to the emperor " ( ibid . ) . He wrote perhaps too early to be ... argued that Christians have a God - given responsibility to obey legitimate political authority to protect the well ...
... Arguing that both judgments derive from biased readings , Witte contends that a balanced reading of the numerous passages strewn throughout Calvin's theological writings yields a more moderate interpretation . Professor Witte ...
... argued , God unified religious and political sovereignty . It follows then , according to Hobbes , that Christ — the " personator " of God in history — would hardly undo that unity . 7 Page 93 , Citing Josef Bohatec , Calvins Lehre von ...
... argued Hobbes , the scripture ordains that " the powers that be are ordained of God . " Society may accordingly punish the creation of factions as inimical to the common good and violative of the divine covenant . Thus , interpretation ...
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RELIGIOUS RIGHTS A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE | 29 |
POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN MARSILIUS OF PADUA | 59 |
MARTIN LUTHER ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | 75 |
MODERATE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE THEOLOGY OF JOHN CALVIN | 83 |
THOMAS HOBBES ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND SOVEREIGNTY | 123 |
JOHN LOCKE A THEOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | 143 |
ROUSSEAUS CIVIL RELIGION AND THE IDEAL OF WHOLENESS | 161 |
EDMUND BURKES TOLERANT ESTABLISHMENT | 203 |
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND RELIGION IN THE AMERICAN FOUNDING REVISITED | 245 |
THE ACCOMMODATION OF RELIGION A TOCQUEVILLIAN PERSPECTIVE | 291 |
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Religious Liberty in Western Thought Noel B. Reynolds,W. Cole Durham (Jr.) Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |