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

Noel B Reynolds (editor), W Cole Durham (editor)

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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:
Brian Tierney
Steven Ozment
John Witte Jr.
Joshua Mitchell
W. Cole Durham Jr.
Michael W. McConnell
Ellis Sandoz
Thomas L. Pangle

ISBN:	9780802848536
Publisher:	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Imprint:	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub date:	01 Jan 1996
DEWEY:	322.44209
Language:	English
Number of pages:	312
Weight:	466g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	17mm