Beyond the Persecuting Society

by Laursen, John Christian; Nederman, Cary J.

• ISBN13: 9780812233315
• ISBN10: 081223331X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
General Introduction: Political and Historical Myths in the Toleration Literature	1	(12)
John Christian
Cary J. Nederman
Part I. The Medieval Balance	13	(82)
Introduction: Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance in Medieval Europe	13	(12)
Cary J. Nederman
1. Peter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue	25	(28)
Constant J. Mews
2. Toleration, Skepticism, and the "Clash of Ideas": Principles of Liberty in the Writings of John of Salisbury	53	(18)
Cary J. Nederman
3. Ha-Me'iri's Theory of Religious Toleration	71	(24)
Gary Remer
Part II. The Long Sixteenth Century	95	(74)
Introduction: The Transformations of the Long Sixteenth Century	95	(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