Religious Liberty in Western Thought (Emory University Studies

Religious Liberty in Western Thought (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion) (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))

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 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 â€” 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 â€” from the organic models of earlier centuries to the dualistic models of more recent times.
Country USA
Brand William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Manufacturer Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780802848536
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Manufacturer	Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780802848536
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Religious Liberty in Western Thought (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion) (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR))