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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... democracy , is the proper form for the religio - political state . Democracy , according to Hobbes , is inherently unstable , always leading to factions , civil war , and the death of the commonwealth . Monarchy , the submission of ...
... democracy's overconfidence in itself and of ensuring the continuity of society's established moral order . It does this at least in part by helping to ensure continuity of the traditions of a society . In sharp contrast to a " social ...
... democracy was witnessing — democracy is not self - sustaining . It needs healthy religious institutions to provide moral strength and purpose in the people . Religious liberty must be seen as " the means to the strengthening , within ...
... democracy , however , according to Tocqueville , is its direct opposition to materialism and individualism — making religious peoples " strong precisely where democratic peoples are weak " ( p . 303 ) . Indeed , for Tocqueville ...
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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 |